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Perhaps they should consider saving that font cache to the disk so you only need to add new fonts to it on startup.
by babypuncher 3y ago
Perhaps they should consider saving that font cache to the disk so you only need to add new fonts to it on startup.
- cptskippy 3y agoAgain, that's application specific implementation details and not a Windows problem.
- SushiHippie 3y agoWindows could provide an API that has a font cache, which other programs can use to quickly get all fonts if they need to. Linux for example has fontconfig with a metadata cache "fc-cache" https://man.archlinux.org/man/fc-cache.1.en https://man.archlinux.org/man/fc-cache.1.en
- cptskippy 3y agoWindows has a Font Cache service that runs in the background so I would imagine they do. I'm not a Desktop Developer so I'm not all that familiar with the Windows API. But like any system, just because a convenient API exists that doesn't mean developers know about or use it. Especially with cross platform solutions, developers will opt not to use a particular API because it complicates things. My guess is that these are poorly optimized Apps and the blogger is blaming the OS for their offenses.