HarfBuzz 7.0 Text Shaping Engine Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: HarfBuzz 7.0 Text Shaping Engine Released

HarfBuzz 7.0 is out as a new version of this open-source text shaping library used by software like GNOME, KDE, Chrome OS, Java, Chrome, LibreOffice, and others...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/HarfBuzz-7.0-Released

[Danny3]

I don't care about memory usage as much as I care about performance.
I hope this doesn't come with sacrifices to performance to achieve lower memory usage.

[tornado99]

I don't care about memory usage as much as I care about performance.
I hope this doesn't come with sacrifices to performance to achieve lower memory usage.

Wouldn't surprise me. Linux seems to have this habit of "lets make things better for somebody running GNOME on a 128MB laptop at the expensive of the vast majority on 4GB+ RAM."

[jrkb]

first of all, happy about the release and reducing memory footprint is great! i would assume, that a more efficient use of resources would also help performance.

[rene]

Amazing release, updated https://t2sde.org/packages/harfbuzz

[microcode]

Good to see some of the Boring Expansion stuff landing. Can't wait to have more than 65536 glyphs per font.