Re: G clef changes

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Valentin Villenave
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 6:49 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Don't load this as a picture into firefox on X11.  It is something like
>> 10000x10000 pixels, and apparently firefox allocates a full-size
>> display-depth pixmap for that, making the server swallow more than 1.2G
>> of memory.
>> I managed to kill the firefox process by now.  It was not pretty.
>
> I had a look without any problem (well, perhaps having a 64-bit CPU
> with lots of memory helps in this regard :-).
>
> Carl, Marc, how would that affect the regtests-checking process? When
> applying this patch all outputted PNGs will look different than
> before, so isn't there a risk that some actual regressions go
> unnoticed?

The regression comparison is not generated from the .PNG files, but
rather from the Stencil bounding boxes at the end of the formatting
process.  I suspect that the change does not affect the clef's
bounding box.

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