Around 7 o'clock on Jun 4, Brian Stell wrote:

> Keith: have you considered sharing whole maps? I have not 
> formally measured this but my impression is that related fonts,
> Arial/Arial-Italic/Arial-Bold/Arial-Bold-Italic, often map the
> same chars. I believe the windows mozilla code does check for
> and share whole maps.

Yes, the sharing is recursive so that fonts which are sharing every page 
end up sharing the top level as well.  That's why the number of CharSets 
is (significantly) less than the number of fonts.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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