[Fontconfig] Streamlining fontconfig scanning

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:

> Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> writes:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have a proposed patchset speeding up fontconfig scanning by 10x, simply
> > by not loading glyphs at all, and trusting fonts having correct cmap:
>
> I added glyph scanning because there were a few fonts with incorrect
> cmaps. Essentially what I found was that vendors were sub-settings fonts
> by stripping out the shapes while leaving the cmap intact.
>

I understand why it was added, but hoping that many many years later, we
can actually remove it and call font bugs what they are: bugs.

-- 
behdad
http://behdad.org/
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