Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Yue Wang wrote:

> loading 6 fonts, each fonts will be scanned for 3 times. so there are
> 18 searching. 12 of them are fc searches, and these are quite slow.

if so, then this fc mechanism is pretty messed up as it's just a hash 
lookup which cna be fast

also, it does not explain why simple plain definitions also have a 
suffix and/or name lookup problem so you'd better make sure that that is 
fixed too (if only because we cannot be sure of users always using 
filenames)

in the meantime i'll add some lookup caching in the xetex specific 
context code (costs a bit of extra hash mem but lets not bother about that)

Hans

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