Reduce number of allocations during FcSortWalk().
The current behaviour of FcSortWalk() is to create a new FcCharSet on
each iteration that is the union of the previous iteration with the next
FcCharSet in the font set. This causes the existing FcCharSet to be
reproduced in its entirety and then allocates fresh leaves for the new
FcCharSet. In essence the number of allocations is quadratic wrt the
number of fonts required.
By introducing a new method for merging a new FcCharSet with an existing
one we can change the behaviour to be effectively linear with the number
of fonts - allocating no more leaves than necessary to cover all the
fonts in the set.
For example, profiling 'gedit UTF-8-demo.txt'
Allocator nAllocs nBytes
Before:
FcCharSetFindLeafCreate 62886
2012352
FcCharSetPutLeaf 9361
11441108
After:
FcCharSetFindLeafCreate 1940 62080
FcCharSetPutLeaf 281 190336
The savings are even more significant for applications like firefox-3.0b5
which need to switch between large number of fonts.
Before:
FcCharSetFindLeafCreate
4461192 142758144
FcCharSetPutLeaf
1124536 451574172
After:
FcCharSetFindLeafCreate 80359
2571488
FcCharSetPutLeaf 18940
9720522
Out of interest, the next most frequent allocations are
FcPatternObjectAddWithBinding 526029
10520580
tt_face_load_eblc 42103
2529892