From: Richard Zidlicky <rz@...68k.org>
Date: 2003-08-19T20:40:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Tk: non-default font 16 x slower

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 05:21:58AM +0900, Kero van Gelder wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:52:35 +0900, Wybo Dekker wrote:
> 
> > When I use the default fonts in my Ruby-Tk application it takes
> > 400 milliseconds to start up. When I use Helvetica or other fonts it takes
> > 6400 seconds. Is there something I can do about that? Perl does not have
> > that problem.
> 
> Use a font explicitely, not only string references (which causes the font
> to be built over and over again), like:
> 
>    font = TkFont.new('courier')

very good tip, but why is font creation so exceedingly slow
anyway? 
On a Pentium 100 it used to take a few seconds with a font
that was already cached by xfs.

Richard