[interfacekit] Re: FreeType2 and font cache

Yeah, DarkWyrm and I had talked about this previously.  Even the 
FreeType folks talk about implementing a cache for performance reasons. 
  Still, if we hadn't already thought of it, this would be very valuable 
information. =)

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Steve Vallée wrote:
> Like for us, people at SkyOS use FreeType to render fonts. Here's an avice
> from Robert that we probably best to take in consideration (sorry if it was
> already planned ;-)
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> Update on February 26, 2002 by Robert Szeleney:
> Huge SkyGI performance increase. As you may know, the graphical user
> interface of SkyOS uses FreeType2 for truetype support. With this library,
> rendering 255 characters (20x20, Arial) needs about 680ms on a P200.
> So I decided to implement a FontCache. With this fontcache, the same 255
> characters are renderd in 15ms now.
> 
> If you ever plan to implement FreeType2 in your OS, implement a Font-Cache
> too. You will get a factor 40 performance increase .
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