> > In my understanding, our consensus was enabling multibyte support by
> > default for 7.3. Any objection?
>
> Uh, was it? I don't recall that. Do we have any numbers on the
> performance overhead?
>
> regards, tom lane
See below.
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Unicode combining characters
From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 23:05:16 -0400
Comments: In-reply-to Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> message dated "Thu, 04 Oct
2001 11:16:42 +0900"
Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To accomplish this, I moved MatchText etc. to a separate file and now
> like.c includes it *twice* (similar technique used in regexec()). This
> makes like.o a little bit larger, but I believe this is worth for the
> optimization.
That sounds great.
What's your feeling now about the original question: whether to enable
multibyte by default now, or not? I'm still thinking that Peter's
counsel is the wisest: plan to do it in 7.3, not today. But this fix
seems to eliminate the only hard reason we have not to do it today ...
regards, tom lane
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