Re: merge emacs-bidi into the main tree

[gerd dot moellmann at t-online dot de (Gerd Moellmann)]

Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org> writes:

>     > IIRC, you were worried about the performance hit: the code as written
>     > in the display engine part required to disable all the optimizations
>     > and shortcuts that exist for the left-to-right languages, 
> 
> Does it disable the optimizations always, or only when there is
> right-to-left text?

AFAIR, most optimizations were disabled in buffers containing
right-to-left text, so that this wouldn't be a problem for users who
don't use right-to-left text in the first place.