Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?

[Keith OHara]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:38:23 -0800, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> > > I will check whether I can improve that in FreeType.
> >
> > Is there a reason this would have such a significantly different
> > impact in Windows?
>
> No.  It's exactly the same code on both platforms.  However, for
> lilypond, even a single-element cache would help, see attached
> quick'n'dirty patch (for FreeType).

The repeated look-ups of the same character, however, are not likely to be 
successive calls to FT_Get_Name_Index(), so will not find the answer in such a 
cache.

I do see how sfnt_get_name_index() does a linear search through the font to 
find a matching name.  Much better if LilyPond could look up text characters by 
their Unicode encoding.

The issue with Lilypond 2.17.95 is a more complicated than the original case 
where we noticed that these look-ups took longer on Windows:  
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1926