From ed6049b4be5b7188bb9597c4844ef3113c6c1136 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:45:52 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Micro-optimization

---
 kitty/fonts/freetype.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kitty/fonts/freetype.py b/kitty/fonts/freetype.py
index b6c846688..cac904240 100644
--- a/kitty/fonts/freetype.py
+++ b/kitty/fonts/freetype.py
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ def face_for_text(text, bold=False, italic=False):
 
 
 def render_text(text, bold=False, italic=False, num_cells=1):
+    if text == ' ' and num_cells == 1:
+        return (CharTexture(),)
     font, face = face_for_text(text, bold, italic)
     func = partial(face.draw_single_glyph, ord(text[0])) if len(text) == 1 else partial(face.draw_complex_glyph, text)
     if num_cells == 1: