On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 11:42:50PM +0200, Johannes Hofmann wrote: > Hi, > > as others also have noticed, Xft based st starts slow on some > systems. For me it helps if FcFontSort() is done lazily as shown > below.
My completely unscientific benchmarking confirms this on my machine: [silvan@myarchbang st-git]$ time st -e exit real 0m0.467s user 0m0.440s sys 0m0.003s [silvan@myarchbang st-git]$ time st -e exit real 0m0.542s user 0m0.493s sys 0m0.013s [silvan@myarchbang st-git]$ time st -e exit real 0m0.548s user 0m0.473s sys 0m0.000s [silvan@myarchbang st-git]$ time ./st -e exit real 0m0.049s user 0m0.020s sys 0m0.003s [silvan@myarchbang st-git]$ time ./st -e exit real 0m0.039s user 0m0.023s sys 0m0.000s [silvan@myarchbang st-git]$ time ./st -e exit real 0m0.088s user 0m0.023s sys 0m0.000s More testing is desirable though. Cheers, Silvan
