Traces of Orbit app start up show that QFontEngineS60::QFontEngineS60 is called many times. In each construction it calls CFbsBitmap::Create, CFbsBitmapDevice::NewL and CFbsDevice::GetNearestFontInPixels, each of which is expensive.

Does it really need to create a new CFbsBitmap and CFbsBitmapDevice each time? It might be more efficient if a common one was shared, or perhaps a pool.