[radarhere]

Currently, ImageFont, FreeTypeFont and TransposedFont have type hints saying that getbbox() accepts bytearray, and ImageFont does as well for getlength(). However, if you try and use them, FreeTypeFont raises errors, and ImageFont returns zero width.

#9908 suggests removing the bytearray type hints.
This PR is the alternative, to start supporting that functionality instead.

I don't have a strong preference for which way we go. #9908 does have to adjust one of our tests when removing the type hints. That test was added in #3907.

[akx]

Since this hadn't actually ever worked, I'm not sure there's demand for it 😄

[codspeed]

Merging this PR will degrade performance by 26.18%

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⚠️ 2 benchmarks are dominated by system calls

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⚠️ 5 benchmarks with a significant change ran on different hardware

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⚠️ 5 benchmarks with a significant change ran in a different software environment

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❌ 5 regressed benchmarks
✅ 663 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 352 skipped benchmarks¹

Warning

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Performance Changes

	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
❌	test_point_transform[1237x811-I]	8 ms	15.7 ms	-49.29%
❌	test_point_lut[1237x811-L]	7.5 ms	11.9 ms	-36.64%
❌	test_point_transform[1237x811-F]	8 ms	9.4 ms	-14.82%
❌	test_point_lut[1237x811-RGBA]	28.3 ms	31.6 ms	-10.57%
❌	test_point_transform[1237x811-RGBA]	28.8 ms	32.2 ms	-10.44%

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Footnotes

1. 352 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩

2. No successful run was found on main (e188fea) during the generation of this report, so 9f8a597 was used instead as the comparison base. There might be some changes unrelated to this pull request in this report. ↩