Hi all, These are some horrible numbers that essentially test FT_Load_Glyph from compressed unifont.pcf.gz in reverse order:
$ time bin/ftstring -k3q -mZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA 15 ../unifont-12.0.01.pcf.gz FreeType String Viewer - press ? for help Execution completed successfully. real 0m6.062s user 0m6.005s sys 0m0.053s The same string forward is much faster: $ time bin/ftstring -k3q -mABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 15 ../unifont-12.0.01.pcf.gz FreeType String Viewer - press ? for help Execution completed successfully. real 0m0.486s user 0m0.456s sys 0m0.016s Is it well known that rewinding the compressed stream is so prohibitively expensive? Or, is this a bug? Thank you, Alexei
