Re: speed of fontconfig

[James Lowe]

Hello,

On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 20:51:47 +0900 (JST), Masamichi Hosoda <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> >>>> [... replacing] 2.12.6 [... with] 2.12.93 indeed provides ~100x
> >>>> improvement and builds the cache on my system in 600ms.
> >>>
> > 
> >>> This was a report of using fontconfig on Windows, IIRC.  So my
> >>> question: Does the Windows tarball of lilypond contain a recent
> >>> fontconfig version?
> >> 
> >> According to
> >> https://github.com/gperciva/gub/blob/master/gub/specs/fontconfig.py
> >> it's 2.12.1.
> > 
> > Should we upgrade?  Masamichi-san?
> 
> For LilyPond 2.21, we should upgrade fontconfig, in my humble opinion.
> But, for LilyPond 2.20, I'm wondering whether we should upgrade or not.
> 
> If I understand correctly, the new fontconfig has significant changes.
> 

I created https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5287/ so this thread 
doesn't get forgotten about.

James