From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 47092 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2015 19:33:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 47078 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jul 2015 19:33:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:33:23 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB4B2413055 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:33:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from YAAKOV04.redhat.com ([10.10.116.32]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t6AJXJWZ018074 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:33:21 -0400 Message-ID: <1436556813.10920.10.camel@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions From: Yaakov Selkowitz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:33:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <55A00F2B.6060401@cornell.edu> References: <87iobhvj4f.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <5562881F.7000301@cornell.edu> <87iobh3zwg.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <55631FDB.10201@cornell.edu> <556350C5.20600@cornell.edu> <87wpzw33ws.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <55636DAE.8020607@cornell.edu> <55A00F2B.6060401@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 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