On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:40:55AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Khaled Hosny wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:10:47AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >>Oliver Buerschaper wrote: > >>>Do you think it would be a good idea to store a checksum of the > >>>actual font file used while generating the cache? > >>This sounds useful. As it will need backend support in luatex, > >>I will add a tracker item for this. > > > >Why? Can't one just store the checksum in the cached lua file, and when > >loading check if it matches the actual font file, if no discard the > >cache and reload the file (I thought context is already doing that). > > Sure, but using the backend is more secure. Once the backend opens the > font file, it cannot be altered any more. In a large document, there may > be as much as a minute between front end and back end. Using the backend > is also faster.
Aha, I didn't think about this use case, I was thinking more about a context cached font changing before processing the document. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer _______________________________________________ dev-context mailing list dev-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context
