[Freetype] FT_New_Face load time?

[Jonathan Shieh]

Hi all,
  I'm having some trouble with the amount of time
FT_New_Face takes to load a face.

Loading 3 different truetype fonts, one for English,
one for Chinese, and one for Korean, I get the
following results.

The font fonts/tahoma.ttf has:
        2022 glyphs
        loaded in 0.095378 seconds
The font fonts/mingliu.ttc has:
        22753 glyphs
        loaded in 0.166180 seconds
The font fonts/gulim.ttc has:
        40194 glyphs
        loaded in 27.917919 seconds

The displayed time is the approximate time it took to
call FT_New_Face like so:

error = FT_New_Face( library,
        realFilename,
        0,
        &face );



Note the long load time of gulim.ttc.  Why does it
take so long to just load the font?  And more
importantly, is there a way to shorten the load time?

Thanks,

Jonathan

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