[Fontconfig] Application startup performance

[Nick Alcock]

On 15 Mar 2016, Raimund Steger uttered the following:

> On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:10:19 +0000
> Nick Alcock <nick.alcock at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> On 15 Mar 2016, Raimund Steger outgrape:
>> 
>> > On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:40:41 -0700
>> > Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
>> >> [...]
>> >> There are four usecases we need to consider:
>> >> 
>> >>   - Normal Linux / other Unix-like.  We can assume high-precision
>> >> timestamps are available and take care of stuff,
>> >> 
>> >>   - Linux / Unix-like system with network file system.  Any issues there
>> >> with your proposed patch?
>> >
>> > NFSv3 spec has nanoseconds, but I think server support is optional.
>> > I'll do some research what kind of support currently is out there. The
>> > implementations I'm using here seem to support it. Even if not, there
>> > might be little choice, as the stat penalty is most severe with NFS
>> > and 2.11 behavior is more acceptable IMHO.
>> 
>> Really? I was seeing multiple second startup penalties caused by all
>> those stats before I patched fontconfig to stop doing them. Any given
>
> But on 2.11, really? I mean last stable? If I truss

Yes. The problem is that it still has to stat() everything to see if
it's a directory, for recursion :( it wasn't using dirent.d_type...

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