Simplified winetricks that installs fonts, fast and dangerous.
Got annoyed with winetricks corefonts taking nearly 2 minutes to install.
winetricks corefonts 13.13s user 8.16s system 18% cpu 1:54.12 total
winetricks roughly does the following when installing the fonts:
- copy the font files into the prefix
- wait for
wineserverto shutdown - register fonts, by calling
regedittwice for each font face - if needed, register font replacements, by calling
regeditfor each font face
※ each regedit invocation is called twice, with wine and wine64
corefonts does 120 regedit calls and 11 wineserver waits.
Instead, this script is staging registry changes into temporary files, then merges them to import all changes in bulk.
This allows to cut down amount of regedit calls down to 2.
Waiting for wineserver to shutdown after copying font files was also removed.
Digging into history leads to winetricks#896.
Comparing registries after installing corefonts with this and winetricks look seemingly the same.
(Apart from some fonts randomly disappearing and appearing in HKCU\Software\Wine\Fonts\External Fonts, but that doesn't seem to be winetricks related)
Not sure how to test HKCU\Software\Wine\Fonts\Cache population, but you should wineserver -w after.
This may or may not to come back to bite me later.
The end result can be seen in the following unscientific benchmarks done in empty tmpfs wine prefix initialized with wineboot && wineserver -w:
% time winetricks corefonts
winetricks corefonts 13.13s user 8.16s system 18% cpu 1:54.12 total
% time winetricksfast corefonts && time wineserver -w
winetricksfast corefonts 0.17s user 0.05s system 7% cpu 2.719 total
wineserver -w 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4.053 totalAnd the worst case scenario with allfonts:
% time winetricks allfonts
winetricks allfonts 61.96s user 39.67s system 22% cpu 7:38.00 total
% time winetricksfast allfonts && time wineserver -w
winetricksfast allfonts 2.48s user 0.39s system 54% cpu 5.219 total
wineserver -w 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4.057 total