[cairo] Cairo Global Glyph Cache

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 01:14 -0400, KULBHUSHAN PACHAURI wrote:
> Hi, 

Hi,

>  Does cairo maintains any global glyph cache which hold glyph image ,
> metrics in device space.

Yes it does.  For the X backend, in the X server using Xrender, and for
image backend in-process.

>  After looking the source code i didnt find any.

Search for cache in cairo-scaled-font.c

>  So can anyone tell me about it & some more details what exactly cairo
> caches i mean glpyh images or surface.

It caches a surface for each glyph, 256 per font.

> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pachauri 

Have fun using cairo!

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