Re: [ft-devel] rendering speedup

[Werner LEMBERG]

> However, there is a person maintaining the Infinality patch-set
>
> https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate
>
> and that integrates cleanly on 'master'.

Aah, good to know!

> The main issues with it (besides the inner workings on font
> rendering which are black-box for me) were performance related.  The
> worst of it is not what I attached but the getenv/sscanf type of
> settings reading from rather hot inner sections of freetype code.
> However, I do have a fix for them with another patch making the
> parameter storage internal.  It wouldn't be a complicated job for me
> to upload these changes in a separate branch if any interest for
> having the `Infinality` option also at the source.

I think it would be best if your changes go into the `bohoomil'
repository!  Note that I can't accept the additional Infinality
patches in its current form – using environment variables is a bad
idea for such a low-level library as FreeType.

The right way would be to add `properties'
(cf. `FT_Property_{Set,Get}) that act on the various FreeType modules.
Erik promised to work on that, but he never did...  Maybe bohoomil is
interested?


    Werner