Slowdown when putting symbols into image data

[J. Landman Gay]

On 9/10/2014, 8:28 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
> In 6.7 (DP1), the times to copy chars or bytes are equal and very small,
> while the number for lines is quite small.
>
> In 7.0 RC1, the times are all *MUCH* larger  - to the point where I'd
> say 7.0 is unacceptable.
> And in addition, copying bytes takes over twice as long as copying chars
> - when if anything it should be the other way round.

That's kind of why I thought it was counting, but whatever is causing 
it, I'm pretty sure it has to do with parsing Unicode and multi-byte 
codepoints. When you have more than one byte per character, it may not 
be possible to calculate the exact text position without counting something.

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