Re: Why searching fonts in xetex is so slow?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 18:19, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Yue Wang wrote:
>>> maybe just set cont-sys.rme, and enable palatino there, then the
>>> palatino loading time can be very short.
>> loaded at runtime anyway so unrelated
>>
>> as mentioned several times before now ... it has nothing to do with the
>> speed of loading a font metric file or parsing typescripts but all with the
>> font cache
> 
> There was indeed a difference here.
> Total runtime when loading palatino has decreased from 3 to 1.3
> seconds if I made the change.
> 
> But I cannot tell if during those two additional seconds fc cache has
> been regenerated.

it also depends on how ths OS caches files in mem (if you have enough of 
it) and the size of the tree (quit esome time is spent on the many real 
huge fonts that i have on my machine)


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