Re: Emacs costs 100M memory on Windows XP

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:14:17 +0000
> > From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > Eric Lilja wrote:
> >     
> > > I'm also wondering what --enable-font-backend does on windows...
> > >       
> > It does the same as other platforms. It enables the new font backend 
> > which better handles unicode fonts.
> >     
>
> Do we need to fix the build without it (which currently fails on
> Windows), or should we make --enable-font-backend the default?
>   

I think the original plan was to make the new font backend the default 
after the initial flood of post-merge bug reports died down, but if the 
old font code is going to be a major source of such reports, maybe it is 
better to make it the default sooner.