>> Perhaps a hybrid approach is the right one: Use the current >> infrastructure up to a certain size, being as fast as possible because >> dynamic allocation overhead can avoided, and resort to dynamic >> allocation otherwise. > > FreeType is not shy about allocating buffers to load a glyph. This > is just one more I highly doubt that it matters even at small > sizes. We always allocate FT_Bitmap even for rendering too. As a > matter of fact FreeType loses to the dense renderers when rendering > complex glyphs precisely because of multiple restarts to fit the > small buffer.
Well, I thought of a solution similar to Behdad's approach in commits 6f16b10019d7 and 56ddafa01ce2... However, I leave that to you, since you've worked much more intensively on the rendering code than me. Werner
