Fwd: Semi-OT: Speed improvement from fontconfig

[Koos Vriezen]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:02:59PM +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> Dne středa 04 leden 2006 21:22 Koos Vriezen napsal(a):
> > Hi,
> >
> > Having used both fontconfig_2.3.91 and fontconfig_2.3.92, seems that
> > fontconfig_2.3.93 is a real PITA. I'm a bit suprised about this,
> > reading stories about even more optimalizations and fontconfig_2.3.93 is
> > from 20 dec. Applications start up about four times slower.
> > I wonder if I'm just missing something with this new release?
> 
>  No idea, I have two days old CVS and it's fine here. You may want to upgrade 
> to recent CVS anyway because of the fix for qt-copy patch #0066 (which is 
> disabled by default for now because of it).

Uh, you mean qt-copy from CVS or fontconfig? FWIW, my qt-copy is from
18 oct and, AFAIR, I didn't apply any patch (only my visibility patch
from http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109386).

> > I created for all the version the debian packages, installed it and, as
> > user, did also 'fc-cache -f'
> 
>  You're supposed to run fc-cache as root AFAIK.

According to debian/fontconfig.postinst, that's already done by dpkg
when installing.

Koos