[BaseIFilter] use cache to avoid recursing too much when gathering locations from component glyphs #829
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Some fonts have hundreds of masters and many nested components, leading the
BaseIFilter.locationsFromComponentGlyphs
method to seemingly hang in a very deep recursion loop.Adding a cache avoids re-doing the same work (of gathering locations of all nested components of a composite glyph) over and over again.