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HarfBuzz 11.3 Delivers Significant Performance Improvements


HarfBuzz 11.3 released on Sunday as the newest release of this open-source text shaping engine

HarfBuzz 11.3 brings some nice performance improvements for this text shaping engine that is used by many prominent software programs and toolkits like Google Chrome, Firefox, GNOME / GTK, KDE / Qt, LibreOffice, OpenJDK, Godot, and many closed-source programs too like Adoboe Photoshop and others. Making HarfBuzz 11.3 quite exciting are a number of performance improvements. The new HarfBuzz 11.3 release speeds-up handling of fonts with very large number of variations.

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