On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 11:33 -0700, Greg Haerr wrote: > It sounds like the font buffer should be shared between > fonts, so that each "loaded" font doesn't use an entirely > new buffer.
Wouldn't this mean that the font would have to be reloaded from disk every time the user switched from one screen to another? That means at least a 1-2 second delay (much more if the disk is spun down) every time the displayed font changes. > The font cache code should be changed to use a font number and > character code, so that it also can be shared between loaded > fonts, rather than having a separate cache per font. Hmm, maybe (I'm not sure how to do that however...). I don't see how that would change the situation much, though. We'll still need X static font buffers for fonts <= MAXFONTSIZE. bk
