Re: [emacs-bidi] Speed of logical-to-visual conversion

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> the results was that it was 19 times slower than "sed -d ''", sed took
> 0.485s while fribidi took 9.7s, I will try it with compiling fribidi
> with -O3 later too.

Thanks for this data point.

FWIW, -O3 could well make the code slower.  You might be better off 
declaring some of the more heavily used functions `inline' and compiling 
with -O2.