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
