Xgl server

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Mon Dec 6 10:14:45 PST 2004


Around 10 o'clock on Dec 6, mcnichol at austin.ibm.com wrote:

> What's going to happen in a GB18030 locale when you have may have
> to deal with 100,000+ characters?

The Render extension encourages clients to treat the X server glyph 
storage as a cache.  Xft uses this to limit memory usage within the X 
server, regenerating glyphs as needed.  The management is entirely 
client-side, so no round trips are needed.

-keith


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