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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Speed issues on app load
From:       Keith Packard <keithp () keithp ! com>
Date:       2000-12-21 16:45:16
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> I use it on purpose :) Loads of debug info and it opens every font,
> but if you delete all your fonts it works well ;)

Did I mention that Xft opens every font when starting any application?
As Knuth says, first make it work, then make it fast.  If you're already 
seeing a performance problem, I'll go build a simple cache.  Should take a 
couple of hours, then Xft won't touch any disk files (except to stat them).

> Yes. This used to work, no idea why it broke, bit it looks damn ugly now. 
> I guess it never really worked by definition as X is full async so there is
> no way to know when the repaint happened...

Yes there is, you send the rendering requests and then you change a 
property -- when the property notify event arrives, you know the rendering 
is done.

keithp@keithp.com	 XFree86 Core Team		SuSE, Inc.

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