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

+ Ahmad Samir + ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com +
+ Wed May 11 18:15:41 CEST 2011 +

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On 11 May 2011 14:03, Zé <mmodem00 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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
+
+How do you know what would look better for those who use bigger fonts
+if you use small fonts yourself? :)
+
+How do you know what would look better for other users who use small
+fonts but different types of monitors, have different eyesight, i.e.
+different preferences of how fonts looks best in their eyes?
+
+
+
+> (by the way, still in mandriva 2010.1
+> bytecode interpreter was off).
+>
+
+Because the patent hadn't expired yet when 2010.1 was released, and
+2010.1 still uses freetype2-2.3.12 (and no one enabled the BCI after
+the patent expired).
+
+> 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
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+
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