RE: [Freetype] FT_New_Face load time?

[Pedriana, Paul]

Christ, what are the chances that two people came across 
the same issue in Freetype within minutes of each other?!

Coincidentally, Gulim is also one of the fonts that I am 
getting slammed by. On the other hand, my problem is with
PostScript fonts and not TrueType fonts; but for all I know,
the problem I reported is caused by the same thing under 
TrueType.

Paul





-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Shieh [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 5:29 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Freetype] FT_New_Face load time?

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