On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 06:55:36PM +0200, Markus Teich wrote: > Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > > I noticed a regression, dmenu seems really slow to load on my machine in the > > function readstdin(). Was the font cache behaviour removed from drw? > > Heyho, >
Heya!, > that is probably because of the second change noted from readstdin(): > > I don't see how your patch fixes the slowness, since it still calculates the > actual width of every item in readstdin(). That's true, it is not the right fix for this issue atleast. > ... > I tested > drw_font_getexts instead of TEXTW, which seems to be a lot faster, but is not > as > accurate, since it doesn't account for fallback fonts if they are needed in > the > string. Please try the attached dmenu patch and let me know if the slowness > problem is fixed. > > --Markus Your patch fixes the slowness for me, but we need to think of a more accurate but faster way indeed. -- Kind regards, Hiltjo
