On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:15:00AM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: : FWIW, for this particular "case" and for the Perl 5.10 and Perl 6 : I think the best way to handle these Unicode case foldings : (CaseFoldings.txt and SpecCase.txt) would most probably be to do the : foldings in _Perl_ compile-time: since there are, after all, only a : few dozen of these special cases, generate the C folding code for /i : and the folding functions straight from the Unicode data tables.
Fine by me. I'm all in favor of both fast *and* smart when we can get away with it. And sometimes even when we can't... :-) Larry