Subject: Re: bug#32159: 26.1; inhibit-compacting-font-caches does not fix all fonts lagging issue

From: net june <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 03:43:10 +0000

On 07/16/2018 02:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 09:50:03 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>>
>> It's great to support a large variety of fonts.  But
>> if a user has lots of fonts installed then it seems
>> that such an advantage can become a debilitating
>> (i.e., severe) disadvantage.
> 
> Only if some characters Emacs needs to display are not supported by
> any of those many fonts, and if the user didn't customize Emacs to
> tell that he/she doesn't _want_ those characters to be displayed,
> ever.  How reasonable is such a situation?  Not very reasonable from
> my POV.
> 

Is it possible to save the font search result to file (custom file) for 
next use? Then we just need to open the HELLO file once to cache the result.