On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:59:03PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:00:03PM +0000, John Levon wrote: > > > > > > "short" makes me go: "Hu! Why? Anything special going on here?" > > > > why not save some memory ? > > The saving is negligible (compared to the memory already used by the map, and > the memory used to hold the font).
I'd even doubt there is any saving at all... > PS: A possible optimization is to hold in addition to the map > an array that stores the widths for the unicode chars 32-127 (the most > common chars). Maybe one can restrict the cache to these chars.... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)