Fwd: [Fontconfig] commit: drastic fontconfig speedups

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From: Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]>
Date: 28-Nov-2005 06:09
Subject: [Fontconfig] commit: drastic fontconfig speedups (fwd)
To: [email protected]



FYI.  Nice job guys at SuSE.

--behdad
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 Spill" -- Dan Bern, "New American Language"

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:48:07 -0500
From: Patrick Lam <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [Fontconfig] commit: drastic fontconfig speedups

Hi all,

The folks at SuSE have been profiling and contributing a number of
performance patches for fontconfig, which I've all reviewed and
committed.  The most recent one is for FcFontSetMatch, which they
 report gives a 3.5x speedup in fontconfig; that patch rewrote the
 algorithm by inlining FcCompare and swapping the order of the loops,
 blocking fonts that were ineligible for being the best font.  So while
 both the old algorithm and the new algorithm are linear in the number
 of installed fonts, the new algorithm is much faster than the old
 algorithm by doing a lot less value list compares.

Lots of thanks to Dirk Mueller, Stephen Kulow and Michael Matz!

pat
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