[cairo] text measurement in perf?

[Xan Lopez]

On 5/29/07, Federico Mena Quintero <federico at ximian.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 20:52 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
> > The issue with non-Western languages you identify is very real, and
> > Federico identified that cairo-1.2 is more than an order of magnitude
> > slower than cairo-1.0 when dropped a huge bunch of Chinese/Japanese text
> > at (in his GUADEC 2006 keynote where he first finger-pointed me as his
> > hero, then next slide revealed the huge regression and everyone was
> > turning heads to see who I was..., hehe).  The change that caused it of
> > course was moving from a global glyph cache to a 256-per-font one.
> > Again, Carl has thoughts about how to fix that too.  Carl?
>
> It was parallax error; for the culprit I was actually pointing at
> KeithP ;)
>
> I didn't get around to seeing where the problem lies, but Keith
> mentioned that it may be the changes in *fontconfig's* cache, not
> Cairo's.  (Or was that Freetype...?)
>
> Some interesting links:
>
> Character frequencies in Chinese:
> http://lingua.mtsu.edu/chinese-computing/statistics/char/list.php?Which=MO
>
> Most common bigrams:
> http://lingua.mtsu.edu/chinese-computing/statistics/bigram/form.php

Note that the japanese character frequency is quite different...
(for example: http://www.tepetaklak.com/kanjis/, the page sucks but it
lists all the common kanjis).

Xan

>
>   Federico
>
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