On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 22:26:36 +0100 Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:08:28AM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > > > Are you using gfxterm ? If yes, then your font is missing í. Try to load > > unifont.bf2 or unicode.bf2. I think debian defaults to ascii.bf2 which > > may not include that glyph. > > Actually, it's us who default to ascii: > > 2008-07-23 Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com> > > [...] > > * util/update-grub_lib.in (font_path): Prefer ascii.pff over complete > fonts, because the latter are too slow. > > before this change, using the complete fonts was incredibly slow in things > like QEMU or VirtualBox. > > Perhaps there's some way in which this can be optimized, so we can go back to > using the complete set by default? I'm optimizing the font rendering now for fonts with many characters. It was using a linear search (gasp!!) for finding the glyph each time it is requested. I just never got around to using the proper data structure, but I will have this done soon. I made a text rendering benchmark and added it to 'videotest bench' so I can objectively measure the improvement achieved. The improvement could be significant. I'll report more later. Regards, Colin
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
