From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2007-08-31T22:21:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Encodings of string literals; explicit codepoint escapes?

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Aug 31, 2007, at 4:42 AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In message "Re: Encodings of string literals; explicit codepoint escapes?"
> >    on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:55:21 +0900, "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
> > writes:
> > 
> > |
> > |Won't keeping all Unicode character's name in memory be very, very
> > expensive?
> > 
> > That's why we need to require the library.  If you don't want to use
> > \N at all, you don't have to pay the price.
> 
> Could we do binary search on a Unicode names data file instead?  I guess we
> would take a small speed hit for that, but it's easy on the memory.

Or give a choice about that depending on which library you load?
People will want to optimise for different things, {available RAM,
fast seekable media, slow seekable media, ...}

> 
> James Edward Gray II
> 
        Hugh