Re: RFC: Idea of Debian Font Manager
At Fri, 09 Feb 2001 00:38:09 +0900,
Yasuhiro TAKE wrote:
> The current one *BIG* problem of Font Manager is that it is too slow for
> actual use. 500MHz Pentium or higher CPU is strongly recommended.
> I guess this is caused by calling configuration scripts and programs of
> Font Manager again and again for child (or grandchild, or grand-grandchild
> ...) processes, which then causes a lot of file accessing.
> I belieave this problem would be sloved when i rewrite all codes in perl
> and unify all of the codes into one program, rewrite configuration
> scripts in perl library style, and make all the Font Management process
> in single task, on memory.
I just built 0.2.0 version of defoma, defoma-ps and defoma-gs.
All codes are written in perl and everything is done on memory in a single
task. These changes result in a drastic speed up. It may be useful
for ghostscript users who have CJK TrueType fonts or CIDFonts, or who
want to use greek Type1 fonts in ghostscript without troublesome work of
editting resource files.
Regards,
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Yasuhiro Take aka hirot / <take@debian.org>
Debian Project
http://www.debian.org
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