Re: ReactOS: stack vs heap

>> Perhaps a hybrid approach is the right one: Use the current
>> infrastructure up to a certain size, being as fast as possible because
>> dynamic allocation overhead can avoided, and resort to dynamic
>> allocation otherwise.
>
> FreeType is not shy about allocating buffers to load a glyph. This
> is just one more I highly doubt that it matters even at small
> sizes. We always allocate FT_Bitmap even for rendering too.  As a
> matter of fact FreeType loses to the dense renderers when rendering
> complex glyphs precisely because of multiple restarts to fit the
> small buffer.

Well, I thought of a solution similar to Behdad's approach in commits
6f16b10019d7 and 56ddafa01ce2...

However, I leave that to you, since you've worked much more
intensively on the rendering code than me.


   Werner