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That's great! When I first started trying to learn Chinese, I had a problem because I couldn't read the characters and sometimes couldn't copy-paste from some apps. I made a font that was similar, and then I could use the Unicode Hex Input keyboard. Your font looks so much better though!
I feel like I'm missing the punchline. How big is the generated font?
Might be interesting to compare SIL's "Unicode BMP Fallback Font",[1] which is significantly more compact (I believe it uses composite glyphs). [1] http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...
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> What if you're using a program that fsyncs? Remove the fsync or use libeatmydata. > So if I'm writing GB of temp files The kind that won't fit on a ramdisk in the first place? And this particular use case shouldn't need that.
The scenario is I'm running a DB on the same system as temp program. Also, machines with many GB of ram are popular these days.
If your temp files fit in ram along with running programs, then they should stay cached. A ramdisk should only be needed in edge cases where you want to manually force other things out of memory, or because you particularly want to avoid extra writes to disk. In general performance is supposed to be boosted just as much by caching.
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The scenario is I'm running a DB on the same system as temp program. Also, machines with many GB of ram are popular these days.
If fsync on one file forces all other files to disk, then it is 100% an OS performance problem. If your temp files fit in ram along with running programs, then they should stay cached. A ramdisk should only be needed in edge cases where you want to manually force other things out of memory, or because you particularly want to avoid extra writes to disk. In general performance is supposed to be boosted just as much by…
Does anyone know the name of the app that's listing/displaying fonts? It looks pretty neat, and I haven't found anything good-looking like that for Linux/*nix.
It's GNOME's font manager: https://fontmanager.github.io/ If you're using ubuntu, there's a package for it
It's designed with GNOME in mind, but not part of GNOME itself, so installing it doesn't require pulling a huge part of GNOME either, and that's a nice plus! :)