From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: dcl441-bugs@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>,
Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Subject: Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)]
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:56:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk55be7y4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqkvh7ew.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:38:15 -0400")
>> 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.
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.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-23 14:56 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 [this message]
2009-04-24 1:09 ` Kenichi Handa
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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