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From:
Dr.Ruud
Date:
November 28, 2011 08:03
Subject:
Re: RFC: Autoloading charnames
Message ID:
20111127105253.8840.qmail@lists-nntp.develooper.com
On 2011-11-23 18:54, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> Jesse Luehrs<doy@tozt.net>  wrote
>     on Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:27:27 CST:

>> Well, if nothing else, it's a potentially unnecessary use of
>> ~500kb/process.
>
> Ouch!  That's good enough for me.  Well, or used to be.  Guido
> recently told the Python folks that having to load 500k of Unicode
> properties to get regexes to work right on Unicode data didn't
> really bother him much, and I tend to agree with him.

I vaguely remember having implemented it well within 100 kB.
(I assume that the '500kb' wasn't meant as '500 kilobits')
I will search and dig it up, and report if it still stands.

-- 
Ruud

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