Good call. You'll get more questions enabling it by default if most people don't need it and it has a significant performance impact. "Why is this new version so much slower?" To my users, applications not crashing is the number one priority. Performance is number two.
-----Original Message----- From: Pascal Sancho [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 4:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: should complex script features be enabled or disabled by default? Hi Glenn, IMHO, the default setting should depend on how much it affects the performances. Can you give an approximative impact? Le 19/07/2011 03:40, Glenn Adams a écrit : > I'm adding a feature to allow enable/disable of complex script > features (bidi, complex char to glyph mapping) at runtime, using > either (or both) command line option and config file element; the > question I have is whether to enable or disable by default? > > If enabled by default, those who don't use complex scripts or don't > want advanced typography features in non-complex scripts will incur a > minor performance penalty. > > If disabled by default, then those users who use complex scripts or > want advanced typography features in non-complex scripts will need to > do something special to enable this support. > > What does the group think? I don't have a strong preference either way. > > G. > -- Pascal
