Re: another patch...

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

>>>>> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Asger> Regarding improving the performance: I can only recommend using
Asger> gprof. It's very easy, and it really helps when you want to
Asger> find and address bottlenecks.

Yes, profiling is often a better idea than trying to guess where time
is lost. 

Nevertheless, since we know without profiling that font loading is
terribly slow, couldn't we cache the font metrics between runs like
wine (for example) does? I'm sure the gain would be important.

JMarc