Hi, I am not sure if it fits under programs related to X: fontconfig
- problem: The way data are stored and/or searched is currently very inefficient. With many fonts and fontconfig rules installed in system, the libfontconfig slows down start of every graphical program. A quick test on my current system: I've got about 4500 files in /usr/share/fonts and standard set of opensuse font config rules. Starting and immediately quitting KDE's Konsole in valgrind resulted in 42% of time spent in libfontconfig! FcFontMatch was called 11 times only. This happens for every program started. Just imagine how much time is spent there during start of big desktop environments... - project description: Rewriting/optimizing the way fontconfig stores and searches the font cache. - difficulty: easy/medium Imho any non-trivial algorithm will be better than current state. It's userspace library, should be easy to test. But there doesn't seem to be any proper set of tests covering the current functionality now, so it may be necessary to create them first. - skills: C, some knowledge about fonts, fontconfig rules Michal Srb _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
