Re: Minutes, 3 Sept 2014 webfonts call

For minimal benefit in following a recommendation (vs a requirement) of the
OT Spec SHOULD seems perhaps more appropriate than MUST.


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 1:36 PM, David Kuettel <kuettel@google.com> wrote:

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