How much memory is needed to render a TrueType font to bitmap

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• anitil 7 hours ago

  By Sean Barrett who I know from popularising single-header C libraries, and is apparently a known figure in the gaming world

  A fun treatment of a dilema I've come across a few times when trying to limit excessive memory allocation. It's like an ourobouros of logic - in order to know the memory needed for a calculation, you need to calculate the calculation leading to a hypothetical sequence of calls like

    makeCharacterBitmapMemoryNeededMemoryNeededMemoryNeeded()
   makeCharacterBitmapMemoryNeededMemoryNeeded()
   makeCharacterBitmapMemoryNeeded()
   makeCharacterBitmap()