[Fontconfig] Application startup performance

[Akira TAGOH]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> Here's another alternative -- cache creation could be the responsibility
> of fc-cache, but perhaps applications could validate the cache by
> checking directory timestamps and loading directories which were out of
> date manually (as they do today) but *not* write out that information
> back to the disk which would avoid the race conditions present in the
> current environment. fc-cache could then use some kind of per-directory
> locking to avoid races in generating the information there, which should
> make the directory timestamps reliable enough to not need applications
> to scan every directory manually at startup time.

But it will takes a lot of times at startup every time when bringing
up applications if the cache is outdated. it looks like worse than
now.
and the issue I faced is came from the parallel running of fc-cache
and traversing deep directories. I don't think it does help for them.

-- 
Akira TAGOH