[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Fw: [PATCH] Allow linking in (shared) libfontconfig directy

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

Hi,

On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:18:15 -0700
Phil Race <Phil.Race at Sun.COM> wrote:

> Also since we dlclose, we reclaim the virtual memory, rather than
> keeping it around when it will never be used again. That is there
> is a very small bounded set of times when we might load this lib,
> so its not something we keep coming back to.
Most of the memory is freed, yes, but there are still the fontconfig
files mapped anyway, as the termination function is not called.

Anyway, please note that by using lazy bindings, the heaviest cost is
deferred to when the functions are actually used (the binding itself);
on the other hand, using direct link rather than dlopen can let
libfontmanager make good use of prelinking (dlopen-ed libraries does
not work with prelink out of the box, but let's not get into that right
now, as it's a quite long argument of which I only know a few
summaries).

You should also consider that most of the modern Linux (and FreeBSD,
and probably other Unix-like operating systems) desktops already have
libfontconfig loaded at any time in memory, as almost every desktop
environment for X11 uses it, and this makes the costs of loading
libfontconfig very time almost non-existent.

> Also I'll be making some fontconfig related changes
> fairly soon .. once I can clear my desk so to speak, so
> its probably not a good time to do this, even if its
> really going to make a difference, which I doubt.
Will wait then, I'm not in a hurry :)

-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
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