I wonder if the fonts in Plucker wouldn't do well to be spun-off into
separate prc's. This would let the user substitute a different font pack
(e.g., for a non-Latin script, or just a nicer font pack), as well as save
memory (no need for hi-res users to have the lo-res fonts, and vice
versa).
The current search routine is designed to work with multi-byte alphabets.
When experimenting with my search armlet, I found that the multi-byte
alphabet support slows down the search by a significant amount. Switching
from multi-byte to single-byte sped up my benchmark from 2 or 2.5 min (it
was a
