Re: ftx font driver [Re: Low redisplay performance (23 regression)]

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> Could someone describe the purpose of the ftx backend?  Obviously,
> someone went to the trouble to write it, so there must have been some
> reason why we want to support it, but from what I read above, I get the
> impression that nowadays e could just scrap it altogether since xft
> works better.

I wrote ftx backend before writing xft backend because the
documentation of Xft library was poor (even now so) and it
was easier to debug the font-backend mechanism with ftx
backend (because it directly uses freetype).

I don't know how many systems have X but not Xft, but if
there exists such a system, ftx backend is still necessary.

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Kenichi Handa
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