>> BTW, why are you allocating so much memory blocks? `ftexample.c'
>> asks for a single character, I thus expect that the GF driver loads
>> only a single glyph...
>
> Oh, this may be because of 128 glyph objects + 1 GF_Glyph object.
> Actually, the GF driver always allocates 256 blocks for the glyph
> bitmaps to be loaded and then according to the font file it
> initializes the required blocks. So, when `ftexample.c' asks for a
> character it first loads all the initialised glyphs and then
> extracts the correct one.
This is bad. Please change the code to load a bitmap only on demand!
There is absolutely no reason to load all 256 bitmaps at once.
Werner
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