[Mageia-dev] why not disable bytecode interpreter in freetype2 ?

Wed May 11 14:03:46 CEST 2011

Yes i also agree that should exist this option, and AFAIK when patents
+were still active, it was needed to turn bytecode interpreter, and in
+that time fonts were smooth, speacially for whos used to use small
+fonts, but even for who uses bigger fonts, its always better to not
+have bytecode interpreter (by the way, still in mandriva 2010.1
+bytecode interpreter was off).
+
+2011/5/11 Dimitrios Glentadakis <dglent at gmail.com>:
+> Στις Τετάρτη 11 Μάιος 2011 05:57:07 Zé γράψατε:
+>> In mandriva sincepatent expiration in freetype, fonts display wasnt
+>> smoth anymore and appeared ugly fonts, this used to exist just in
+>> plf..
+>>
+>> But since theres no patents issues pending, why not old rendering
+>> algorithms by default (disable bytecode interpreter), that way fonts
+>> will have a better rendering and look.
+>>
+>> This is most true for guys that are used to use small fonts, for
+>> example im used to use Sans size 8, like its now in mageia, they dont
+>> look very good and also appear smaller that if using bytecode
+>> interpreter disabled, so to be able to have a good rendering font
+>> look, i always repackage freetype2.
+>>
+>> Why not Mageia start using also bytecode interpreter disabled by default?
+>>
+>
+>
+> I reported a wish here:
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1240
+>
+>
+>
+> --
+> Dimitrios Glentadakis
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Zé
+