My bad, I said font metrics. I meant full text shaping. And native, not JS. Or how 'bout: how hard would it be make HarfBuzz thread-safe?
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@robarnold Based on quick wc -l looks like roughly 34KLOC.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@littlecalculist ok, so more than a casual weekend of hacking :)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@robarnold Software based on human social constructs seems to be, on the whole, terrifying. (You may have some experience with this.)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @littlecalculist
@littlecalculist I thought HB was already thread safe? I was under that impression.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@littlecalculist Maybe if its caches are global. But if not it might be possible to have multiple HB contexts and operate in parallel.
10:15 PM - 4 Dec 2012
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