From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 74623 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2015 19:45:40 -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 74609 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jul 2015 19:45:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock02.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock02.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.242) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:45:38 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id t6AJjaHJ009696 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:45:36 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.6] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id t6AJjZE6026302 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:45:36 -0400 Message-ID: <55A020E5.4060405@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:45:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions 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> <1436556813.10920.10.camel@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <1436556813.10920.10.camel@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00038.txt.bz2 On 7/10/2015 3:33 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > 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:? Sure, if that's OK with Achim. I'm not sure what impact that might have on other Perl modules that depend on Unicode::Normalize, if we have any in the distro. Ken