Hi Hub,
> Can that optimization be applied to STABLE as well ? Gaining some > speed for the next release would not be a bad thing. the changes inside fl_BlockLayout::_doInsertTextSpan() can be carried over to stable without hesitation (the bidi build only, of course). I have also commented out a couple of calls to _lookupProperties(), one in fl_BlockLayout::formatLocal(), and one in fl_BlockLayout::redrawUpdate(). Both of these should not be there and are very performance-costly. Whether they were there to cover some other bug I am not 100% certain, but I would do this in stable as well, as this is simple to revert if worse comes to worst. Tomas
