On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 16:41 +0100, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > 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... >
Just to add something minor to this thread, I don't know how many of you have read my most recent blog post but check out the sweep stake idea This could be a fun way to help with this problem http://www.qdh.org.uk/wordpress/?p=210 K, _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
