- It probably does increase perceived footprint although
results will probably vary by platform and
we'd need to see if people will accept that. I did what
I hope is a reasonably fair comparison of the two approaches,
reading all font files on my XP system takes mem usage up to 160Mb
with the new approach, vs 37Mb with the existing approach.
That is virtual memory or actual resident memory? Sure - virtual memory
mapped into the process increases significantly, as all the font files
appear to be loaded completely into the process. Actual used resident
memory should not increase (at least, did not for my tests under linux).
But I see that the problem is that people use flawed memory usage
analysis tools and will probably scream if the VM uses twice as much
memory than before.
Yep, this is virtual memory.
Unfortunately this is what people look at using windows task manager :(
- There are some cases that need additional work here
* T2K also, like any rasteriser will need to randomly access the file,
so has similar code.
Unfortunately I have no control over that code.
I can add necessary support on t2k side if it will be needed.
-igor
