Poor TTF font performance on Linux with newer VM

Tony Garnock-Jones tonyg at lshift.net
Thu May 18 11:38:50 UTC 2006


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Isn't that still the issue that TTF glyphs are not cached long enough
> anymore because of a fix to the garbage collector's weak ref handling?
> 
> Is there a fix in the image by now?

Wow. That could be interesting to test. I'll try saving and loading the
project with the BookMorph into a 3.9 image; failing that, I'll try
building a mock couple of pages similar to those I have in my 3.8 image.

I'll report back.

Thanks,
  Tony




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