I'm seeing abnormally high high-CPU usage and terribly slow text scrolling response in konsole with freetype-2.7. I'm not sure what kind of detail I can provide.
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Perhaps related: by default freetype-2.7 seems to use the v40 interpreter instead of the older v35 interpreter (https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-tt_driver.html#TT_INTERPRETER_VERSION_35). This enables hinting by default and might be what is degrading performance? If there was a way to switch between interpreters you could test if this was the issue.
This is happening for me too. However, if I select another font than Bitstream Vera Sans Mono the CPU usage goes right down. Do you happen to use this font as well?
(In reply to priveinformatie from comment #3) Deja Vu Sans Mono here.
> If there was a way to switch between interpreters you could > test if this was the issue. There is a way! Use the new environment variable FREETYPE_PROPERTIES. See http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2016-09/msg00010.html There is an example for FREETYPE_PROPERTIES in the middle of the page. Please report performance regressions to the developers at https://www.freetype.org/contact.html
I am experiencing the same performance issue with freetype-2.6.5 compiled with flag cleartype_hinting enabled.
My performance problem definitely seems to correlate with the cleartype_hinting option. The problem is more obvious with certain fonts than others. I'm not sure what other factors might affect this; would hardware acceleration have any effect? I'm using nouveau with a fairly old card. I'll see about reporting it upstream.
The upgrade to 2.7 due to #612192 broke the default font in my gnome-terminal. It is really odd to read now, the space between words is now sort of randoom in size. Has anyone else this problem, is it related to the new cleartype_hinting useflag?
Maybe 2.8 works better...
I'm using 2.8 and not seeing any problems.
Marking as obsolete. If this is still an issue with recent freetype releases, please file a new bug.
