Re: memory allocations.

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes: 
>
> > One of these slopes must be the font map. So it's a whole bunch of
> > short strings for font names.
> >
> > We could pool them by just forcing them all to the same length, maybe,
> > though the length is in principle arbitrary.  Ideally we would not
> > have the font map. I think things look a lot different in Xft mode
> > instead of traditional X fonts mode, this is the traditonal-X-fonts
> > map.
>
> Hmm, fontmap strings are probably immutable, so we could just put them
> all in one large single block while still allowing arbitrary string
> length.
If they are immutable, could you use the GStringChunk code in glib to 
allocate them?

James.