Re: [ft-devel] does the face cache really work ?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> An important design point of the cache subsystem is that a
> FTC_FaceID value (i.e. the address contained by the pointer) is used
> to _uniquely_ identify a given cacheable face.
> 
> This is essential to perform fast lookups (a pointer comparison is
> so much faster than calling a callback that may itself call
> strncmp...)
> 
> I guess we should update the documentation to reflect this
> better.

Please do so!  My knowledge of the caching code is very limited.


    Werner