Fwd: Semi-OT: Speed improvement from fontconfig

[Koos Vriezen]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:14:10PM +0100, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Thursday 05 January 2006 12:45, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> 
> > I must have hit the 0.1% chance. 
> 
> Run it manually please. Also, something might touch your home directory (debug 
> files, .X.err logging etc), and time stamp changes on your home directory 
> invalidate the fontconfig cache (yes, fontconfig is fucking braindead). 

Very well, try it (though I'm pretty sure I've upgraded when log'ed
out of X) and indeed the slowdown is gone now.
(not so) Btw. what has my home dir got to do with this? And why doesn't
an invalidated cache get re-created again, or does that invalidates it
self again?

> Other than that, I'm really interested in a callgrind output. If the callgrind 
> output shows the majority of time spend in freetype, you hit the 
> invalidated-cache bug. if not, then I'm interested. 

Not needed anymore,

Koos