The primary speedup comes from the optimizing lookup-nested-alist and
set-nested-alist for the case where the key is a string. This brings
the time down to less than half the original.
* lisp/international/mule-util.el (lookup-nested-alist)
(set-nested-alist): Use `assq' instead of `assoc' when KEYSEQ is a
string.
* lisp/international/ja-dic-cnv.el (skkdic-collect-okuri-nasi)
(skkdic-convert-okuri-nasi): Use progress-reporter functions instead
of calculating ratio of work done inline.
(skkdic-reduced-candidates): Call `char-category-set' on the first
character of the string directly, instead of using a regexp for the
character category.
(skkdic--japanese-category-set): New constant.
(skkdic-collect-okuri-nasi): Just set
`skkdic-okuri-nasi-entries-count' at once at the end rather than
updating it throughout the loop.
(skkdic-convert-postfix skkdic-convert-prefix)
skkdic-get-candidate-list, skkdic-collect-okuri-nasi)
(skkdic-extract-conversion-data): Use `match-string-no-properties'
instead of `match-string'.