Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)]

[Chong Yidong]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> Ummm, I didn't realize this calling sequence.  I agree that
> we surely need some kind of caching mechanism.  But, it
> seems that FreeType itself has that mechanism called "Cache
> Sub-System".  Perhaps, we should use it.

Unless this is extremely simple to implement, let's leave this for after
the release.

Maybe we should add a warning message to configure that marks the ftx
backend as experimental; i.e., telling people that they should build
--without-freetype if libxft is unavailable.