> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Teran [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 0:16
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [iText-questions] another optimization question
>
> Hi,
>
> i do not know exactly if this would be possible, but it seems that about
> 80% of the byte[] created while making a pdf report with itext are
> allocated in BaseFonts convertToBytes method:
>
> return text.getBytes(encoding);
>
> which in turn gets called a lot of times from the method "getWidth" and
> this one from "getWidthPoint".
>
The work must be done somewhere.
> I know that the encoding is important, but couldnt it be possible to
> check if the conversion is necessary or not? Would it always make a
> difference (for example between "MacRoman" and "Winansi") or just
> sometimes, under special circumstances.
>
Conversion is always needed. Maybe for winansi something more
efficient could be made. I'll do some tests for this.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
> If it would be possible to modify these methods, then really a lot of
> temporary objects could be eliminated. Also, the convert method takes
> about 28% of the whole CPU time, this combined with the saved temporary
> objects could increase performance for more than 30% and also would
> reduce memory footprint.
>
> kind regards, david
>
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