Re: Drawing strings on a line

[Matt Rice]

2009/6/3 David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org>:
>
> P.S. Prior to 10.5, this was really slow because the NSAttrubutedString
> method set up all of the text system objects and then destroyed them at the
> end.  With 10.5, there is just one instance of the text system objects that
> is shared between all NSAttributedString instances, so this is very fast.
>  If this isn't the case in GNUstep, it should be, because Cocoa programmers
> are likely to use this convenience method a lot more now that it's fast for
> them.
>

been a long time since i looked at it but i think this has been the
case since this patch
in 2003

http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep/libs/gui/trunk/Source/NSStringDrawing.m?r2=16250&rev=16250&r1=15774&dir_pagestart=150