Re: FW: Can I package pcf fonts without gzip compression?
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:40:10AM +1200, Carlos Z.F. Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 05:34:49PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Aug 18, "Carlos Z.F. Liu" <carlosliu@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> > > My unofficial package, xfonts-wqy, is such a font covered complete CJK
> > > Unified Ideographics. Many people use this font in Mozilla Firefox to
> > > display CJK web page. They told me that this gzipped pcf font cause a
> > > 2 or 3 second high CPU usage period after opening a Chinese web page.
> > This only happens once per session (and on very slow systems), so I
> > think it's acceptable.
> >
> No, not only once per session, it always happens when I open a news page
> from tw.yahoo.com or cn.yahoo.com. 3 second delay is count in my laptop,
> Pentium III 900, which isn't very slow.
Hello Carlos,
In that case, I think you should report that as a bug in
mozilla-firefox. Uncompressing a gzip'ed file is usually faster than
reading it because your CPU is much faster than your hard-disk, and I
don't see why mozilla-firefox should reread the file again and again.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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