From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)] Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:38:15 -0400 Message-ID: <87iqkvh7ew.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <4870CC42-A08E-4BE9-B566-0F4DA7AB0B74@gmail.com> <873ac3arbf.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <83r5zmhf2q.fsf@gnu.org> <83mya9hm0i.fsf@gnu.org> <873ac0aeoy.fsf@CPU107.opentrends.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240490278 14027 80.91.229.12 (23 Apr 2009 12:37:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:37:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dcl441-bugs@yahoo.com, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 14:39:17 2009 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 1LwyCq-0002pG-3r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:39:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37810 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LwyBR-0007FJ-4Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:37:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LwyAC-0006jC-QV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LwyA8-0006fg-5r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51058 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LwyA8-0006fb-2D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:49258) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LwyA7-0006AQ-Qx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1C56D57E245; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:38:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Kenichi Handa's message of "Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:22:10 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: 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:110430 Archived-At: Kenichi Handa writes: > Ummm, I didn't realize this calling sequence. I agree that > we surely need some kind of caching mechanism. But, it > seems that FreeType itself has that mechanism called "Cache > Sub-System". Perhaps, we should use it. Unless this is extremely simple to implement, let's leave this for after the release. Maybe we should add a warning message to configure that marks the ftx backend as experimental; i.e., telling people that they should build --without-freetype if libxft is unavailable.