[Fribidi-discuss] Re: BiDi WINE status and fribidi

[Dov Grobgeld]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:03:41AM +0100, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > The character override, I believe, is rather a mute point, as I can't
> > see anyone actually using it.
> 
> Actually, this might come rather handy for me in AbiWord, and it 
> would speed up the bidi processing when character types are 
> known apriory, since it would save the lookups in Unicode tables.

I don't see how abiword could possibly know the character types without
referencing the Unicode tables? Btw, the fribidi character lookup
is heavily optimized through a two level lookup table (that was
contributed by Owen Taylor). There might be some slight gain by 
caching of the information, but I think it is negligable compared to 
the rest of the work done on each string.

Dov
 
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