From kde-core-devel  Thu Dec 21 18:07:12 2000
From: Keith Packard <keithp () keithp ! com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:07:12 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Speed issues on app load
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> Nah, every Corel CD ships a few thousand TTF's ;)

Check.  One cache coming up.  I've got a screaming power supply that needs 
fixing before I can start on that though.

> Are there plans to move the stuff into the server (at least font glyph
> rendering / information sharing ?)

Glyphs are already stored in the server and shared among applications.
Otherwise, you'd have horrible performance.  Applications do rasterize 
their own glyphs and ship them to the server, but that's done incrementally
and the results are not saved in the client.

As for sharing the rasterization results, that's something I've considered 
for a while and haven't really come up with a satisfactory answer.  If it 
gets to be a serious problem, I'll look at it again.  There's no memory 
savings; the glyphs are tossed in any case.

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