On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 15:32 +0000, Brian Nitz wrote: > But if a > feature isn't used 99.999% of the time and it consumes resources, it > should have an off switch.
No. If a feature isn't used 99.999% of the time and it consumes resources, it's a bug and should be fixed. > Your comments and a couple of experiments with dtrace and various other > tools, convinced me that it probably isn't worthwhile to restrict the > opening of these font cache files by locale even in cases where they are > remotely mounted via NFS. (Does anyone remember when Apple system > performance was proportional to the number of installed fonts?) Just use latest fontconfig. It doesn't create cache files on NFS anymore. It's not productive running 3 year old software and talking about improvements... -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
