[Qt-interest] Qt/X11 Text Handling on MacOSX faster than Qt/Mac

[Frank Mertens]

Josh wrote:
> So...
> 
> I spent the day fiddling with OSX and was able to get Qt/X11 to run using Fink. 
> Running my program under Qt/X11 on OSX was probably about 5 times faster than 
> under Qt/Mac (maybe more, I didn't run official speed tests yet, but it wasn't 
> even close). As I said, my program is all about text layout/rendering. I'm 
> pretty sure that this is almost completely due to Harfbuzz being faster than 
> Core Text, but there could be other factors.
> 
> So I'd love someone who is more experienced than I to chime in about the 
> possibility of getting Harfbuzz to run on Qt/Mac. It seems like if my program 
> is any sort of indicator, this would be very nice to have as a configure switch 
> for people who want to get a lot more speed out of the Mac text handling.
> 
> Any Trolls to chime in? Is this doable?
> 

Have you tried rendering to a QImage? If I remember right it would invoke the internal
platform-independent raster engine (which should use freetype/harfbuzz?!).

A bit outdated, don't know if it's still valid:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1174421&seqNum=3