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?
Ken
[*] This is the way Biber is shipped by TeX Live on all platforms on
which the Biber author can build it. This includes i686-cygwin but not
x86_64-cygwin, because he doesn't have a 64-bit Cygwin system. But I am
expecting to build it on x86_64-cygwin and send it upstream for
inclusion in TeX Live. I already have it built and just need to do a
little more testing.
NAME="perl-Unicode-Normalize"
VERSION="1.17"
RELEASE="1"
CPAN_AUTHOR="SADAHIRO"
DESCRIPTION="Perl distribution Unicode-Normalize, providing Perl modules:
Unicode::Normalize.
Unicode Normalization Forms."
DIFF_EXCLUDES="MYMETA.*"
inherit perl
SRC_URI="http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/S/SA/SADAHIRO/Unicode-Normalize-1.17.tar.gz";
