[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.99 released

Will Robertson will at guerilla.net.au
Wed Dec 7 07:44:52 CET 2005


On 07/12/2005, at 15:50 , Suki Venkat, [TnQ] wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:00:27, Adam Twardoch wrote:
>> Having more than 1000 fonts installed at the same time usually
>> impedes
>> system performance.
> I can see GUI being affected by that but
> does it impede XeTeX's performance also?

Yes - JK mentioned that XeTeX has to scan every installed font when  
it starts up. It does seem like something that could be cached, however.

Will



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