From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1436556813.10920.10.camel@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55A00F2B.6060401@cornell.edu>
On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 14:30 -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 5/25/2015 2:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> > BTW, I contacted Philip Kime, the author of Biber, about
> > Unicode::Normalize. He told me that version 1.18 is unusably slow.
> > Here's a bug report he filed about it:
> >
> > https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=102766
> >
> > I think he's planning to pursue it further.
>
> It doesn't look like anything is going to change in the near future.
> According to the bug report I cited, Biber runs slower by a factor of 20
> with version 1.18 of Unicode::Normalize than with version 1.17. I don't
> think that's acceptable.
>
> The only solution I can think of is to ship Biber as a self-contained
> Perl Archive made with PAR::Packer[*], built with version 1.17 of
> Unicode::Normalize. I've gotten the latter from backpan and built it
> locally using the attached cygport file.
>
> Does anyone have a better idea?
Just ship 1.17 instead as curr:?
--
Yaakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-10 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-24 20:03 Achim Gratz
2015-05-24 21:03 ` Ken Brown
2015-05-25 7:01 ` Achim Gratz
2015-06-05 16:44 ` Eric Blake
2015-05-25 2:26 ` Ken Brown
2015-05-25 7:00 ` Achim Gratz
2015-05-25 13:13 ` Ken Brown
2015-05-25 15:21 ` Achim Gratz
2015-05-25 16:41 ` Ken Brown
2015-05-25 18:31 ` Achim Gratz
2015-05-25 18:45 ` Ken Brown
2015-07-10 18:30 ` Ken Brown
2015-07-10 19:33 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2015-07-10 19:45 ` Ken Brown
2015-07-10 21:32 ` Achim Gratz
2015-07-10 22:27 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2015-07-14 20:00 ` Achim Gratz
2015-10-20 19:31 ` Unicode-Normalize [Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions] Achim Gratz
2015-10-20 22:49 ` Ken Brown
2015-10-27 19:51 ` Ken Brown
2015-11-01 19:06 ` Achim Gratz
2015-05-25 22:55 ` perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions David Stacey
2015-05-26 5:32 ` Achim Gratz
2015-05-26 8:35 ` David Stacey
2015-05-26 16:41 ` Achim Gratz
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