Fontconfig - Nov 2005 - performance regression: fc-cache became slow when skipping

Patrick Lam <plam@MIT.EDU> ????????:
> Mike FABIAN wrote:
>> I.e. the second run of fc-cache in the ~/.fonts directory not even
>> twice as fast as the first run.
>
> I''ve committed a patch which uses directory cache files in
fc-cache, if
> -f was not specified, like 2.3.2 did.  I think this fixes your issue.
Thank you, this seems to fix the problem, it is about as fast
as it used to be now when -f is not specified.

Updated fontconfig packages including that patch for SuSE Linux 10.0
are available at

    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/m17n

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Mike FABIAN   <mfabian@suse.de>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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Mike FABIAN wrote:
> I.e. the second run of fc-cache in the ~/.fonts directory not even
> twice as fast as the first run.
I''ve committed a patch which uses directory cache files in fc-cache, if
-f was not specified, like 2.3.2 did.  I think this fixes your issue.

pat

I''d like to submit a patch by Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
(CC:), which is applied to the SuSE fontconfig package for upstream
inclusion.

It is attached.

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Mike FABIAN   <mfabian@suse.de>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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With the new fontconfig 2.3.91 (CVS snapshot from 20051007):

    mfabian@magellan:~/.fonts$ fc-cache -V
    fontconfig version 2.3.91
    mfabian@magellan:~/.fonts$ time fc-cache -f -v .
    fc-cache: ".": caching, 71 fonts, 1 dirs
    fc-cache: "./kde-override": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
    fc-cache: succeeded

    real    0m24.659s
    user    0m10.693s
    sys     0m0.172s
    mfabian@magellan:~/.fonts$ time fc-cache -v .
    fc-cache: ".": skipping, 71 fonts, 1 dirs
    fc-cache: "./kde-override": skipping, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
    fc-cache: succeeded

    real    0m14.288s
    user    0m10.585s
    sys     0m0.096s
    mfabian@magellan:~/.fonts$

I.e. the second run of fc-cache in the ~/.fonts directory not even
twice as fast as the first run.

If all cache files are already up to date, fc-cache should run
very fast, but with the new version of fontconfig it is
always very slow. 

This was much better with older versions of fontconfig which didn''t
yet have the mmap feature:

    mfabian@rossini:~/.fonts$ fc-cache -V
    fontconfig version 2.3.2
    mfabian@rossini:~/.fonts$ time fc-cache -f -v .
    fc-cache: ".": caching, 71 fonts, 1 dirs
    fc-cache: "./kde-override": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
    fc-cache: succeeded

    real    0m12.328s
    user    0m10.133s
    sys     0m0.104s
    mfabian@rossini:~/.fonts$ time fc-cache -v .
    fc-cache: ".": skipping, 71 fonts, 1 dirs
    fc-cache: "./kde-override": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
    fc-cache: succeeded

    real    0m2.023s
    user    0m0.016s
    sys     0m0.000s
    mfabian@rossini:~/.fonts$

I.e. the second run is much faster here.

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Mike FABIAN   <mfabian@suse.de>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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Mike FABIAN wrote:
> I''d like to submit a patch by Marcus Meissner
<meissner@suse.de>
> (CC:), which is applied to the SuSE fontconfig package for upstream
> inclusion.
> 
> It is attached.
Committed.

pat