From: Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <yatskovsky@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Fonts loaded
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:52:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB9FDE9.9090209@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1883.1253681946.3069.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Hello Hans,
Thank you for --mode=*nofonts and detailed explanation.
The mode works well and reduces font loading time from 2.281 to 1.266 seconds!
Thankfully,
Vyatcheslav
> - you can try --mode=*nofonts but keep in mind that this is meant for
> special cases where styles are loaded immediately on the command line
>
> - it will not save much time; eventually we will have opentype lm math
> anyway; and half of those fonts are small anyway
>
> - it will result in errors when you don't immediately load a typeface
> especially if spacing is being set up
>
> - you need a math font because some symbols come from math (like bullets)
>
> - delaying math setup would result in way more overhead as then it needs
> to be set up inside math (and then it happens grouped)
>
> - also, reported problems resulting from not having load a base font set
> are unlikely to be looked into
>
> - as i keep optimnizing code, i expect the reported times to drop a bit
> in the future;
>
> - a resident run might save some load time, but this is compensated by
> the need to reinitialize all subsystems (apart from a mess)
>
> - computers will become faster anyway and in most runs the startup time
> is small compared to the other runtime
>
>
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2009-09-22 21:36 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
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