Re: font-backend

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Thanks, but I also asked about disadvantages.  TANSTAAFL, and I
> believe this case is no exception.
>   

It has had about 15 years less testing.
It is noticably slower on Windows (not sure about other platforms)
There is no BDF font support on Windows (yet - it will be a cleaner 
implementation though, with a separate backend)


>   
> > I dunno if any of that applies to Eli, if he uses windows.
> >     
>
> Why would this be any different on Windows?
>   

The antialiasing advantage does not apply to Windows, since antialiasing 
does not depend on the APIs used for drawing text.