Re: [NTG-context] Why searching fonts in xetex is so slow?

Yue Wang wrote:

Hi, Hans

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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Yue Wang wrote:

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I see, no font is defined when dumping the formats... pretty unlike plain TeX... then why so much time is used for iwona, while only 1.2 sec is used to load lm roman? see previous mail ... because xetex rebuilds the fc cache each time; so it's not related to context as all name lookups suffer from the same

then if it tries to load lm, it will build fc cache too, why is the loading time too short?

in short, can you please explain to us why

name: uses the font database with file system fallback file: uses the file system with fontname fallback when the font cache is ok there is no difference in speed; ha snothign to do with the font or context (in mkiv there is a bit more clever searching going on) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------