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gevaerts:

--- Quote from: karashata on April 05, 2010, 04:16:21 PM ---it's not really recommended to do disk defragmentation on a flash drive anyway, or so I've read, because flash media is managed somewhat differently from a regular hard drive in order to extend the live of the flash memory.

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This might be true, but then the ipod mini doesn't have a flash drive anyway (unless it's CF-modded)

karashata:
Oh, my bad... The nanos were the ones that started using flash memory instead of a hard drive...

gulak:

--- Quote from: karashata on April 05, 2010, 04:16:21 PM ---Also, note that fonts containing larger numbers of glyphs will take longer to load compared to fonts with fewer glyphs because of the number of glyphs it contains...

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The 16-GNU-Unifont.fnt has 53388 glyphs and takes 7,1 s to boot (from pressing the power button until it plays music) on my player. The 16-Jackash.fnt has 254 glyphs and takes 7,1 s to boot.
Now you can think about your thesis on number of glyphs and loading time ;D

Multiplex:

--- Quote from: gulak on April 06, 2010, 02:26:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: karashata on April 05, 2010, 04:16:21 PM ---Also, note that fonts containing larger numbers of glyphs will take longer to load compared to fonts with fewer glyphs because of the number of glyphs it contains...

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The 16-GNU-Unifont.fnt has 53388 glyphs and takes 7,1 s to boot (from pressing the power button until it plays music) on my player. The 16-Jackash.fnt has 254 glyphs and takes 7,1 s to boot.
Now you can think about your thesis on number of glyphs and loading time ;D

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I'm sure I remember reading about a glyph cache that only loads glyphs that have actually been used, if a new one comes up it has to go and get it... or maybe I have been dreaming.

I think the glyph cache is saved at shutdown and re- loaded at boot, rather than the font file.

torne:

--- Quote from: gulak on April 06, 2010, 02:26:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: karashata on April 05, 2010, 04:16:21 PM ---Also, note that fonts containing larger numbers of glyphs will take longer to load compared to fonts with fewer glyphs because of the number of glyphs it contains...

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The 16-GNU-Unifont.fnt has 53388 glyphs and takes 7,1 s to boot (from pressing the power button until it plays music) on my player. The 16-Jackash.fnt has 254 glyphs and takes 7,1 s to boot.
Now you can think about your thesis on number of glyphs and loading time ;D

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it depends what kind of player you have. The problem is not the number of glyphs but simply if the for is over 60kb, whch is the limit for the fast font loading method. The difference between the fast and slow methods is very small on flash targets, and only around 200-300ms on most disk targets, as far as I have measured. Only the iPod video 5.5g is likely to experience a huge slowdown because of this. The cache doesn't help, incidentally, because what it caches is kinda dumb (just the indexes of the glyphs used recently) - loading them individually is what makes it slow.

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