Re: Minutes, 3 Sept 2014 webfonts call

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:51 AM, John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com> wrote:

> Apologies for missing today's call.
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>      sergeym: maybe we should require a decoder to put tables in the
>>     order that is recommended by the OT spec, regardless of what
>>     order it was in the original input file.
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> This is what I was going to suggest too. I wonder if it is a SHOULD or
> MUST situation, though? As I understand it, the performance benefit is now
> considered minimal, although I'd love to see some comparative data.


This is one change where I don't think we would be able to easily measure
the performance benefit, although Sergey might have some thoughts on how
to.  Agreed that the benefit would likely be minimal, esp. in the common
case.  For consistency / best practices reasons however, the proposal seems
good.

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