mozilla/servo — pull request #548 by sfowler (2013-06-27 02:05:13+00:00)
Title: Cache shaped text at word granularity

This PR makes text runs store the results of shaping as a vector of ARC; each element of the vector holds the shaped glyphs for a nonbreakable unit of text (basically a word). This change allows us to cache the shaped glyphs for the words, an approach that Gecko (and probably WebKit) uses. We get pretty good cache hit ratios even on the first run of layout for a page (I saw 62% on Wikipedia's main page today), although a lot of that is due to whitespace. This really comes into its own on subsequent layout runs, though, which are completely cached in the typical case.