The Mac font lists are in this closed issue: https://github.com/pygame/pygame/issues/179
On Sunday, April 4, 2021, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > There probably should be an open issue for this. The initial query is > quite slow unfortunately, and I can’t find a quicker query. What can be > done is to use a known set of fonts for different or some subset of OS > versions... Apple did/does publish these lists somewhere, so a fix would be > to first look at these lists and then only query if the font can not be > found. > > For many/most fonts that people use with SysFont (like Arial) this would > hit the fast path and avoid this slow query. > > cheers, > > On Sunday, April 4, 2021, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > >> On 5/04/21 9:29 am, Irv Kalb wrote: >> >>> If I load a font like the system font using None with a call to >>> pygame.font.font, it happens almost immediately. >>> >>> But if I load a font by name using pygame.font.SysFont, it's taking over >>> 7 seconds on my Mac to load. It doesn't seem to matter which font I try to >>> use. >>> >> >> Is it slow every time you run it, or are subsequent runs faster? >> >> I don't have an OSX 11 system handy to try it on, but I tried >> it on 10.12.6 and got this: >> >> First run: >> Loading System font took 0.015527009963989258 >> Loading Arial font took 4.879987001419067 >> >> Second run: >> Loading System font took 0.00061798095703125 >> Loading Arial font took 0.05048775672912598 >> >> Third run: >> Loading System font took 0.0006070137023925781 >> Loading Arial font took 0.0516507625579834 >> >> So for me it took about 4.9 seconds the first time, but was >> a lot faster once it was warmed up. >> >> -- >> Greg >> >>
