From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, dcl441-bugs@yahoo.com,
mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)]
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:09:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Lx9vL-0007mz-Bk@etlken> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk55be7y4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:56:39 -0400)
In article <jwvk55be7y4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Could someone describe the purpose of the ftx backend? Obviously,
> someone went to the trouble to write it, so there must have been some
> reason why we want to support it, but from what I read above, I get the
> impression that nowadays e could just scrap it altogether since xft
> works better.
I wrote ftx backend before writing xft backend because the
documentation of Xft library was poor (even now so) and it
was easier to debug the font-backend mechanism with ftx
backend (because it directly uses freetype).
I don't know how many systems have X but not Xft, but if
there exists such a system, ftx backend is still necessary.
---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-24 1:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-20 21:58 Low redisplay performance (23 regression) David Reitter
2009-04-20 22:31 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-04-20 22:33 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-20 23:20 ` David Reitter
2009-04-21 3:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-21 12:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-04-21 13:51 ` David Reitter
2009-04-21 14:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-04-21 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-21 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-21 23:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-04-21 20:19 ` David Reitter
2009-04-21 20:53 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-21 22:15 ` David Reitter
2009-04-22 15:30 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-04-22 15:50 ` David Reitter
2009-04-22 16:28 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-22 18:26 ` David Reitter
2009-04-23 13:34 ` Willem Rein Oudshoorn
2009-04-23 22:45 ` Miles Bader
2009-05-06 13:28 ` Willem Rein Oudshoorn
2009-04-22 22:58 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-23 1:01 ` ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)] Kenichi Handa
2009-04-23 7:31 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-23 11:22 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-04-23 12:38 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-23 14:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-24 1:09 ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2009-04-24 2:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-24 3:52 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-25 14:38 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-21 23:16 ` Low redisplay performance (23 regression) Juanma Barranquero
2009-04-21 14:56 ` William Xu
2009-04-21 15:30 ` David Reitter
2009-04-22 14:25 ` William Xu
2009-04-29 10:17 ` Tobias C. Rittweiler
2009-04-29 11:54 ` David Reitter
2009-04-29 13:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-29 17:35 ` Tobias C. Rittweiler
2009-04-29 20:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-30 7:34 ` Tobias C. Rittweiler
2009-04-30 20:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-30 20:34 ` Tobias C. Rittweiler
2009-04-29 18:01 ` Tobias C. Rittweiler
2009-04-29 17:40 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-04-29 17:49 ` David Reitter
2009-04-29 18:21 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <14FF0914-56BA-41D6-85DA-A4024694CF75@gmail.com>
2009-04-29 19:45 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-04-29 18:45 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-30 2:46 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-30 3:49 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-30 6:27 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-04-29 22:10 ` Miles Bader
2009-04-30 5:05 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-30 7:53 ` Tobias C. Rittweiler
2009-04-30 9:37 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-04-30 12:44 ` David Reitter
2009-04-29 18:38 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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