[Bug 547532] New: enabling bytecode interpreter makes things far, far worse

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Summary: enabling bytecode interpreter makes things far, far worse

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547532

           Summary: enabling bytecode interpreter makes things far, far
                    worse
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: high
          Priority: low
         Component: freetype
        AssignedTo: besfahbo at redhat.com
        ReportedBy: mattdm at mattdm.org
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: besfahbo at redhat.com, kevin at tigcc.ticalc.org,
                    fedora-fonts-bugs-list at redhat.com
    Classification: Fedora


It's cool that the patent expiration lets us enable the bytecode interpreter. 

However, there's a severe flaw -- if there's no bytecode, apparently freetype
doesn't hint at all.

I use Inconsolata as my terminal font, and it normally looks great. After the
update, it got all fuzzy and basically unusable. This is sadly true for a great
many very nice fonts.

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