Re: Unicode search
Re: Unicode search
- Subject: Re: Unicode search
- From: James Robinson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:10:04 -0600 (CST)
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 From wrote:
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At 2:43 PM +0000 21/03/03, John Delacour wrote:
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>From 5.8.0 onwards, yes. I upgraded to 5.8.0 mainly for its better
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>implementation of Unicode, though I must admit I haven't done as
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>much work yet with it as I had planned. As to performance, I can
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>think of no reason why it should suffer.
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<duck>
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Maybe because in Unicode characters don't have a fixed length?
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</duck>
Heh. That's the easy explanation.
The other cause for a slowdown would be a test for the equivalence (not
equality!) of the two ways to represent a Greek glyph that John
demonstrated upthread. That would make variable-length integer
equality test look like a cakewalk, but it would also fit neatly into
Perl's love of DWIMmery.
I can already hear the systems programmers demanding the return to
supremacy of 7-bit ASCII.
--
James
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