From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs costs 100M memory on Windows XP Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:04:45 +0000 Message-ID: <47A4DAED.4000801@gnu.org> References: <47A46CA9.40703@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201986339 28001 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2008 21:05:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:05:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mindcooler@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 02 22:06:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JLPYD-00074w-Vh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:05:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLPXm-0004xM-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:04:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLPXi-0004x1-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:04:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLPXh-0004wp-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:04:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLPXh-0004wm-Iv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:04:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JLPXd-0006ap-KB; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:04:49 -0500 Original-X-Trace: 22105849/mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAAdqpEdTQxds/2dsb2JhbAAIkXabAg X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 02 Feb 2008 21:04:48 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:88055 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:14:17 +0000 >> From: Jason Rumney >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> Eric Lilja wrote: >> >>> I'm also wondering what --enable-font-backend does on windows... >>> >> It does the same as other platforms. It enables the new font backend >> which better handles unicode fonts. >> > > Do we need to fix the build without it (which currently fails on > Windows), or should we make --enable-font-backend the default? > I think the original plan was to make the new font backend the default after the initial flood of post-merge bug reports died down, but if the old font code is going to be a major source of such reports, maybe it is better to make it the default sooner.