Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!albanycs!steinmetz!uunet!lupine!ed From: ed@lupine.UUCP (Ed Basart) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: A Thought on X Terminals Summary: Font Caching Message-ID: <158@lupine.UUCP> Date: 2 Feb 89 02:33:05 GMT References: <19613@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Distribution: comp Organization: Network Computing Devices, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 10 may be possible to make it work. The sample X server does provide a font caching mechanism that requires only the currently used font to be present. This won't help much if programs like texx2 actually use 3.5 MB of font information. What may help is the idea of caching only the glyphs (? I hope that's the right term), so if you're only using 5 characters out of a set of 5000, you can get all that you want for only 1% of the memory resource. This is one of the ideas kicking around for X font service, I can not claim credit for it.