[Fontconfig] Application startup performance

[Keith Packard]

Behdad Esfahbod <behdad.esfahbod at gmail.com> writes:

> Humm.  I don't know when things changed, but as far as I understand, we
> readdir() every time; the cache just caches the patterns for each
> file.

That's wrong -- fontconfig knows all of the directories in the hierarchy
and should be able to just stat each of them; if none of the existing
directories have changed, then no new fonts could have been added to the
system. Stat'ing a few known directories should suffice to track whether
the cache is up to date. And, it used to work this way, so something has
been broken.

-- 
-keith
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