Matt Fowles wrote: > Dan~ > > I know that you are not technically required to defend your position, > but I would like an explanation of one part of this plan. > > Dan Sugalski wrote: > >>4) We will *not* use ICU for core functions. (string to number or number >>to string conversions, for example) > > > Why not? It seems like we would just be reinventing a rather large > wheel here.
Without having looked at what ICU supplies in this department I would guess it's simply because of the overhead. atoi() is probably quite a bit faster than pulling in the full support for TIBETAN HALF THREE. (Though to be honest I think Parrot shouldn't trust on atoi() or any of those guys: Perl 5 has tought us not to put trust too much on them. Perl 5 these days parses all the integer formats itself.)
