Subject: Re: bug#27350: #27350 25.2; Make `inhibit-compacting-font-caches' customizable

From: "Felix E. Klee" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:20:48 +0200

FYI, a 2005 fontconfig bug report about slowness when loading MingLiU:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3838

The solution is caching: “TrueType fonts are broken in various ways;
fontconfig works around this by scanning the entire font once and
caching the result. That's why it caches things.”

Caching is fine with me.