[Qt-interest] QFont::defaultFamily() takes ridiculous share of CPU time, but only on Windows

[Atlant Schmidt]

Philipp:

> How and why gets QFont::defaultFamily() called
> in the scenario described above?

  Perhaps your Linux machine has the "Inconsolata" font
  and your Windows machine doesn't, so Qt spends a lot
  of time deciding which fall-back font to use?

                            Atlant

-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of Philipp Münzel
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 08:28
To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Subject: [Qt-interest] QFont::defaultFamily() takes ridiculous share of CPU time, but only on Windows

Hi folks,

I develop an application that renders a lot of bitmaps with text on them.

This works roughly like this:
QImage image;
QPainter painter;
painter.begin(&image);
QFont mono_8("Inconsolata", 8);
QBrush brush(QColor(r,g,b), Qt::SolidPattern);

QPainterPath path;
path.addText(x, y, mono_8, text);
painter.fillPath(path, brush);

painter.end();

Each rendering consists of about 50 to 100 words.

The result is reasonably fast on Linux.
On Windows, however, performance is rather bad.

I used Intel VTune as a profiler to see what is consuming the CPU time.
I found that on Windows, 50% (!!!) of the CPU time is spent in the function
QFont::defaultFamily(). What is this?
When I profile on Linux, I see pretty much the result I expected, most of the time is consumed by the QPainterPath::addText() function.

What's the QFont::defaultFamily() function doing? Why does it take such an enormous amount of CPU time on windows, where on Linux, I don't even find it in the top 100 functions of my profiling?
How and why gets QFont::defaultFamily() called in the scenario described above?


Regards,
Philipp
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