[perl #117231] using constant loads utf8 unnecessarily

Le Mer. Mar. 20 08:53:52 2013, brad a �crit�:
> Right now just loading constant will force utf8 to also be loaded.

This version of constant.pm is also the latest one available on the CPAN
as 1.25.

The major issue is that utf8_heavy.pl is now loaded. 400KB.
99.999% of code use only pure ASCII constant names and this recent
change brings much pain to environments that are memory constrained or
for which initialization time is critical.

As a workaround Maddingue released constant::tiny, but this is not a
general solution.

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• [perl #117231] using constant loads utf8 unnecessarily by Karl Williamson via RT
• [perl #117231] using constant loads utf8 unnecessarily by Olivier Mengué via RT
• [perl #117231] using constant loads utf8 unnecessarily by Brad Gilbert