[Bug 23630] New: do not scan all font metrics on application startup

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23630

Summary: do not scan all font metrics on application startup
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gdi32
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

With a good set of fonts, about 800-1200 families, wine is not very good at
starting up fast, and it doesn't even respond to signals. The only way I've
found to kill it is with a wineserver -k.

I was told that wine currently scans font metrics on each application startup.
I feel that this could be improved, either by scanning the information needed
from the font file lazily or once, on wineserver start.

Approximate time, it takes around 3-4 minutes for a cold start of winecfg
before effects are visible.

[Bug 23630] do not scan all font metrics on application startup

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23630

Lucas  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Lucas   2010-07-12 20:34:57 ---
i don't know much about font rendering, but to improve speed, couldn't wine
scan the metrics of some font only when needed (i.e. just before using it), and
not all  the fonts at once ?

[Bug 23630] do not scan all font metrics on application startup

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23630

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
          Component|gdi32                       |-unknown
         Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE

--- Comment #2 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2010-07-13 01:01:15 ---
Duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 17548 ***

[Bug 23630] do not scan all font metrics on application startup

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23630

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #3 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2010-07-13 01:01:28 ---
Closing duplicate.