Re: Observations on the 4.6rc1 windows package

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

Am 27.02.2012 20:35, schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:22, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>>
>> Mojca Miklavec reported earlier that wxWidgets 2.9 has problems on OSX.
>
> However it works now - after some patches have been applied to gnuplot
> (or maybe I should double check that the patches are indeed in sources
> and not just on my computer).
>
>
> Before claiming differences in startup speed, please double check
> something that definitely has a huge influence. I think that wxWidgets
> use fc-config and when one first starts the program, it will always
> take a considerable amount of time to build font caches (it has to
> scan all fonts in C:\Windows\Fonts and possibly some others). So it
> might be that whenever one tested the new build with wxt 2.9, it was
> only rebuilding caches and the second run would be faster, while the
> caches for gnuplot with wxt 2.8 were already present and thus gnuplot
> start was faster. This problem should not occur on linux and mac and
> you cannot get rid of it on windows unless you rewrite some code from
> wxt or configure fontconfig in a different way (but then users might
> just as well start complaining that the new fonts don't work in
> gnuplot).
>
> Mojca

Tests have been run several times of course. Please note that the 
cairo/pango terminals (including wxt) no longer use the fontconfig 
mechanism.

   Bastian