[luatex] using (pdf)lualatex

[Taco Hoekwater]

Yue Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yue Wang wrote:
>>> Well, I have been suggesting this problem to Hans and Taco several
>>> times during the last year. In ConTeXt this problem can be split into
>>> two since ConTeXt use the font cache mechanism (it can dump the
>>> metrics table from the font and store it as a lua table into the disk)
>> Calculating boundingboxes implies interpreting the actual curves,
>> and that eats up lots of memory. I'll see if I can create a shortcut
>> somewhere. If I don't have to calculate boxes afterward, then there
>> is no need to interpret and save the curves, and the resulting memory
>> footprint should be much lower.
> 
> Great to hear that, and if so, it will also make luatex runs much
> faster since no calculation is needed.

Would it be acceptable to have

	fontforge.open("file", false)

which makes to_table return four zeroes in the character boundingboxes?