Re: Input method or help feature needed

[Miles Bader]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>> There are many characters in the Unicode database, so slow machines
>> will take time generating the list, especially if that's the first
>> time you are invoking "C-x 8 RET".
>
> There are many pixels on the screen, and redrawing still finishes in
> reasonable time.  Computers have become faster since the seventies.

I think Richard uses a machine that's an order of magnitude slower than
average...

(it takes about 1s to generate the unicode completion list on the
machines I use, which are sort of "middle of the road")

-Miles

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