[Fontconfig] Streamlining fontconfig scanning

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:

> Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> writes:
>
> > We don't need more config.  We have enough ideas to get the performance
> > boost while handling bad fonts if we decide to.  But I agree with Keith,
> I
> > think we should just ship without blanks and deal with repercussions
> > after.
>
> Yeah, as I said, I don't recall any 'reasonable' fonts ever had
> trouble. Of course, it's been a long time since I've not had the outline
> scanning. Perhaps we should just survey fonts that people have available
> today; I've got about 3300 font files on my machine to try; perhaps it
> would be good to know how many of those are broken.


Indeed.  Just do fc-scan on your corpus with master and then with my
branch, and diff the outputs.  Time both runs as well, for comparison.
Report what you find.


-- 
behdad
http://behdad.org/
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