The output of strace shows that fontconfig opens those file during every QML application startup.
A solution to this would be to introduce a caching system: after fontconfig opens and parses those files the first time it could serialize the result to disk for subsequent starts. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1590804 Title: fontconfig initialization spends most of its time parsing XML configuration files in /etc/fonts/conf.d/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1590804/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs