It just means it needs to flush old data from the font cache.  You may see
this a lot if you are for example drawing at a large number of sizes, as you
fill up the font cache with glyphs in a lot of sizes and old glyphs need to
be removed to make room.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Adam Ratana <adam.rat...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, I am noticing the same with an implementation for some new
> functionality I'm experimenting with.  I am doing a lot of canvas.drawText
> calls on a custom View canvas, using the system font though.  Are you doing
> canvas.drawText a lot, Samuh?
>
> Also a "bump" in case anyone reading has knowledge on this subject.
>  Wondering am I doing something stupid here, trying to avoid jankiness.
>
>
> On Wednesday, June 1, 2011 2:10:27 PM UTC-4, Samuh wrote:
>>
>> We are using four different custom fonts across our app. These files
>> are bundled in Assets and are opened in onCreate of every Activity.
>>
>> While studying the logs of our app we keep observing the following log
>> from Skia decoder.
>>
>> 01-01 19:19:51.585: DEBUG/skia(1510): purging 197K from font cache [20
>> entries]
>>
>> What does the above mean? And how does it affect performance?
>>
>> Is it desirable?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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