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by interroboink 463 days ago
Perhaps since FreeType is the one handling the more untrusted inputs (the font files themselves, downloaded from who-knows-where), it is more at-risk and thus stood to benefit from the conversion more?

But I don't really know anything about how all the parts fit together; just speculating.

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Skia's inputs are relatively less complex, so there is less risk of dangerous corner cases.