GNU bug report logs - #27350
25.2; Make `inhibit-compacting-font-caches' customizable

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:35:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 25.2

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #43 received at 27350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee <at> inka.de>
Cc: 27350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27350: #27350 25.2;
 Make `inhibit-compacting-font-caches' customizable
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 16:00:59 +0300

> From: "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee <at> inka.de>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:20:48 +0200
> Cc: 27350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 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.”

Thanks for that data point.


> Caching is fine with me.

Patches are welcome.  (I know almost nothing about fonts.)
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