Comment 1 for bug 553911

reproduced with Inkscape 0.47+devel r9273 on OS X 10.5.8

choosing 'Arial Unicode MS' in the font list of the glyph dialog takes about 70s to create the list of available glyphs.

hardware specs:
  Model Name: MacBook Pro
  Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
  Number Of Processors: 1
  Total Number Of Cores: 2
  Memory: 2 GB