I have some results from field testing on a low powered device (500MHz, 256MB RAM)
Initialization is way too slow. And I seem to have introduced some serious regressions in the applications web UI, which may well be due to the code I had to rip-out / replace in Webkit and ICU.
Anyway, I've been asked to pursue an alternative approach based on adding Freetype support for Windows to Qt4. Field testing is promising (no observed regressions). See "this code review":https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/100430/ for more