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

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> Well, I just tested it, with latest fribidi, on a RedHat Linux 7.1
> machine, with the fribidi utility, and a 20mb persian file, that
> beside persian (arabic) letters, contains a little english, some
> punctuation marks, lots of non-spacing marks, and no explicit marks,

Btw, do you have any evidence that the speed depends on whether R2L 
characters are present in the text?  I'd guess that the dependence 
should be very weak, since, assuming a straightforward implementation
of UTR#9, the amount of operations does not change too much.