Re: lots of doc updates, some glyph changes

Thursday, 11 May 2000

        Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com&gt; writes:

...
 i'm going to fix specifiers so you can do the equivalent of
 "restart-specifier-instance".  this way, you just replace the code
 that gets the display table with one that gets *all* display tables
 in the specifier that apply, and you just have a few more to iterate
 over.  much simpler and faster than calling
 specifier-matching-instance or whatever each time. 
You're right.

I actually tried to implement it slow method, and I had a prototype
that even worked, but was so abysmally slow that each redisplay took
several seconds.  That's when I concluded the
specifier-matching-instance per character was not the right approach.

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