CJK XCreateFontSet performance problem (bug 5309)

It turns out bug 5309 affects Picasa; a Chinese user
complained that menus were terribly slow.  The
patch Aric committed here: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2006-October/027272.html
seems to have helped.  I'm wondering, though, whether 
this points up a problem in how linux distros configure their
asian fonts.

I'm sending this via direct telnet to winehq's tsmtp server,
since there's no other way to avoid setnding passwords in the
clear from where I am at the momment (dang unencrypted wireless
in hotel forooms.).  Sorry for all the ^H's :-)