From 22511c41d55a38a770541ae617a09383d5e6ad1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NRK <nrk@disroot.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:37:55 +0600
Subject: [PATCH] drw_text: improve performance when there's no match

this was the last piece of the puzzle, the case where we can't find any
font to draw the codepoint.

in such cases, we use XftFontMatch() which is INSANELY slow. but that's
not the real problem. the real problem was we were continuously trying
to match the same thing over and over again.

this patch introduces a small cache, which keeps track a couple
codepoints for which we know we won't find any matches.

with this, i can dump lots of emojies into dmenu where some of them
don't have any matching font, and still not have dmenu lag insanely or
FREEZE completely when scrolling up and down.

this also improves startup time, which will of course depend on the
system and all installed fonts; but on my system and test case i see the
following startup time drop:

before -> after
60ms   -> 34ms
---
 drw.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drw.c b/drw.c
index 7d985b1..a50c9ee 100644
--- a/drw.c
+++ b/drw.c
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ drw_rect(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, int filled, int
 int
 drw_text(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, unsigned int lpad, const char *text, int invert)
 {
-	int ty, ellipsis_x = 0;
+	int i, ty, ellipsis_x = 0;
 	unsigned int tmpw, ew, ellipsis_w = 0, ellipsis_len, ellipsis_width;
 	XftDraw *d = NULL;
 	Fnt *usedfont, *curfont, *nextfont;
@@ -263,6 +263,9 @@ drw_text(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, unsigned int lp
 	FcPattern *match;
 	XftResult result;
 	int charexists = 0, overflow = 0;
+	/* keep track of a couple codepoints for which we have no match. */
+	enum { nomatches_len = 64 };
+	static struct { long codepoint[nomatches_len]; unsigned int idx; } nomatches;
 
 	if (!drw || (render && !drw->scheme) || !text || !drw->fonts)
 		return 0;
@@ -346,6 +349,12 @@ drw_text(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, unsigned int lp
 			 * character must be drawn. */
 			charexists = 1;
 
+			for (i = 0; i < nomatches_len; ++i) {
+				/* avoid calling XftFontMatch if we know we won't find a match */
+				if (utf8codepoint == nomatches.codepoint[i])
+					goto no_match;
+			}
+
 			fccharset = FcCharSetCreate();
 			FcCharSetAddChar(fccharset, utf8codepoint);
 
@@ -374,6 +383,8 @@ drw_text(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, unsigned int lp
 					curfont->next = usedfont;
 				} else {
 					xfont_free(usedfont);
+					nomatches.codepoint[++nomatches.idx % nomatches_len] = utf8codepoint;
+no_match:
 					usedfont = drw->fonts;
 				}
 			}