Re: merge emacs-bidi into the main tree

> From: [email protected] (Gerd Moellmann)
> Date: 08 Aug 2003 13:23:28 +0200
> 
> IIRC, I was worried that it might be a dead end, sort of a hack, which
> users of r2l languages wouldn't be happy with in the long term.  But I
> have to confess that I don't remember the details.

I still have the mail we exchanged, and can dig out the details.

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, and you felt
this would hamper redisplay performance even in the simplest cases,
like cursor motion and insertion of a single character.