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?