[PATCH] (Draft2) Make X11 server-side fonts and Mule suck less.

[stephen at xemacs.org]

Aidan Kehoe writes:

 > The results are cached, but to get a result, XListFonts may be called an
 > insane number of times, often, as mentioned, with an entirely inappropriate
 > pattern for the given charset. This is as expected, and can?t be avoided
 > with regex charset-registry fields. 

Er, you seem to be forgetting that a disjunction of fixed strings *is*
a regex.  Ie, your API "can't work" either.  But it does, so I still think:

 >  > A working cache (with a switch to revert to old uncached behavior) could
 >  > be backported to 21.4, but I don't think an API change like the one
 >  > you've proposed should be.