Google Summer of Code ideas needed

[Alan Coopersmith]

While I'm okay including it under the umbrella of an X.Org/Freedesktop.org
Summer of Code application if the current maintainers are okay with that,
I'm not sure the problem described is something that would take a student
12 weeks of full time work to solve.   Perhaps if it included writing a
full test suite for fontconfig it would come closer.

On 03/13/13 11:02 AM, Michal Srb wrote:
> I am not sure if it fits under programs related to X: fontconfig
>
> - problem:
> The way data are stored and/or searched is currently very inefficient. With 
> many fonts and fontconfig rules installed in system, the libfontconfig slows 
> down start of every graphical program.
> 
> A quick test on my current system:
> I've got about 4500 files in /usr/share/fonts and standard set of opensuse 
> font config rules. Starting and immediately quitting KDE's Konsole in valgrind 
> resulted in 42% of time spent in libfontconfig! FcFontMatch was called 11 
> times only.
> 
> This happens for every program started. Just imagine how much time is spent 
> there during start of big desktop environments...
> 
> - project description:
> Rewriting/optimizing the way fontconfig stores and searches the font cache.
> 
> - difficulty: easy/medium
> Imho any non-trivial algorithm will be better than current state.
> It's userspace library, should be easy to test. But there doesn't seem to be 
> any proper set of tests covering the current functionality now, so it may be 
> necessary to create them first.
> 
> - skills:
> C, some knowledge about fonts, fontconfig rules
> 
> Michal Srb
> 
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