Re: Poor TTF font performance on Linux with newer VM

> Isn't that still the issue that TTF glyphs are not cached long  
> enough anymore because of a fix to the garbage collector's weak ref  
> handling?
>
> Is there a fix in the image by now?
>
> - Bert -
>
> Am 18.05.2006 um 13:30 schrieb Tony Garnock-Jones:
>
>> I've just checked against 3.9-4 (built from source tarball from
>> squeakvm.org), and it's still hideously slow. So it's down to  
>> something
>> that changed between 3.7-7 and 3.9-4. Or perhaps CroquetPlugin or
>> FloatMathPlugin. Or AioPlugin or UnixOSProcess :-)
>>
>> Tony.
>>
>> goran@... wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg@...> wrote:
>>>> Thanks for that - I had suspected it might be a plugin. I've  
>>>> followed
>>>> your suggestion, and the plugin list is almost identical except for
>>>> OSProcess and FFI plugins.
>>>>
>>>> I've just run "MessageTally spyOn: [3 timesRepeat: [self  
>>>> nextPage]]" on
>>>> my BookMorph. The two results are dramatically different: on the  
>>>> 3.7 VM,
>>>> 477ms for the whole thing; on the 3.9 VM, 50354ms for the whole  
>>>> thing! A
>>>> factor of 100x slower.
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