>> After doing a few speed measurements to a Qt based program I found >> that freetype was producing a few hotspots, two of them in >> src/smooth/ftsmooth.c > Aah, your code is a fix for the `Infinality' patch set! I do have both 'master' and 'Infinality' patch-set branches and, indeed, I didn't realize it was specific to the Infinality branch, sorry about that! >> With the patch attached the time spent there was reduced some 50% >> (by block re-allocations and more effective initialization). >> Perhaps you'll find it worthwhile for mailine integration. > Thanks. However, the `Infinality' code is not in upstream FreeType. > Very unfortunately, its author has completely disappeared, apparently > no longer interested in (a) maintaining it, and (b) helping integrate > it :-(
True, the original author (www.infinality.net) passed the baton. He did a very nice work and I was impressed by the visual difference and flexibility of settings so it's my standard setup now. However, there is a person maintaining the Infinality patch-set https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate and that integrates cleanly on 'master'. The main issues with it (besides the inner workings on font rendering which are black-box for me) were performance related. The worst of it is not what I attached but the getenv/sscanf type of settings reading from rather hot inner sections of freetype code. However, I do have a fix for them with another patch making the parameter storage internal. It wouldn't be a complicated job for me to upload these changes in a separate branch if any interest for having the `Infinality` option also at the source. /M > > Werner _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
