On 10/ 7/10 10:46 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10948

Currently, if the locale is UTF-8, no CJK fonts are installed, and someone
does XCreateFontSet() with a font name of "*", we end up asking the server
to list the (non-existent) fonts 11 times for each CJK encoding, which can
take a while.

A * wildcard can match multiple components in a XLFD name in XListFonts(),
so there's no need to try adding more than one to get a match.

We do try once with a leading '*-' in case the fontname isn't a full
well-formed XLFD name, maybe even that isn't needed?

(See also http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#slow_menus)

Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY <[email protected]>
---
  modules/om/generic/omGeneric.c |    2 +-
  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules/om/generic/omGeneric.c b/modules/om/generic/omGeneric.c
index c78c0a9..da2a13d 100644
--- a/modules/om/generic/omGeneric.c
+++ b/modules/om/generic/omGeneric.c
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ parse_omit_name(
        return True;

      /* This may mot be needed anymore as XListFonts() takes care of this */
-    while (num_fields < 12) {
+    if (num_fields < 12) {
        if ((last - buf) > (XLFD_MAX_LEN - 2))
            return -1;
        *last = '*';


We have this code completely disabled in the Solaris builds,
so the comment about it not being needed any more may be true:
https://java.net/projects/solaris-x11/sources/x-s12-clone/content/open-src/lib/libX11/6789219.patch

The comments in our bug report from it say:

  xterm, xfd take long time to start when miss fonts

  What this code does is, it progressively calls the get_font_name which calls
  XListFonts with patterns like '*-<codeset>', '*-*-<codeset>',
  '*-*-*-<codeset>' during each loop to find a matching XLFD font. This code
  is not needed because XListFonts should work on the first invocation just
  before the loop code if there's a matching font.

  Commenting out this code speeds up the apps.

In any case, after 3 years with no comments, I've gone ahead and pushed to
git master.

--
        -Alan Coopersmith-              [email protected]
         Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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