Re: Cairo Font Cache
Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lib.cairo |
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 05:35:22PM +0200, Edward Zimmermann wrote: > I realize it’s a case that Cairo does not like. Its side-effects are real. > > I'm asking WHY? It is kept in a holdover cache because a lot of applications do reuse such fonts. And before that in your example, it is still being referenced by the context anyway. > Its NOT a live font. Its at most a dangling one.. I don't use it. Yes the pointer is still around in Cairo's > tables but nobody will ask for it to do any drawing.. If I don't draw with a font why should it matter if > its insides are wholesome or gutted? It is a live font until all references to it are dropped. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- cairo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo