Fwd: Semi-OT: Speed improvement from fontconfig

[Lubos Lunak]

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 22:26, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> 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).

 Fontconfig CVS. We use SVN these days :).

>
> > > 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.

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