H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Albert Cahalan wrote:
Font size is not a sane place to draw the line. Features are.
Font sizes are an eminently sane place to draw the line, because the
crossover is largely determined by the point at which nailing down too
much memory (kernel memory = unswappable memory) gets too expensive.
But then the sane limit is a number of pages, not "512 glyphs".
And there is no problem if the memory is allocated dynamically
when loading the font. Americans may then load a 127-glyph
font without wasting memory. And those who wish to lock down
5MB unswappable memory for a hi-res chinese console can do that too.
Doing so isn't really a problem on a desktop pc.
Helge Hafting
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