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authorKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2012-08-26 11:30:57 -0600
committerKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2012-08-26 12:28:26 -0600
commita3d517785b3dcac4f3f7aa5c85386a1a8074f46d (patch)
tree211ece64d56c933bb689db2f47cf905d933b251f
parentaff163d96ea1505927d05ead3078b1d7bb3bfa93 (diff)
downloadperl-a3d517785b3dcac4f3f7aa5c85386a1a8074f46d.tar.gz
perldelta for Unicode property performance gains
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@@ -64,7 +64,10 @@ There may well be none in a stable release.
=item *
-XXX
+Speed up in regular expression matching against Unicode properties. The
+largest gain is for C<\X>, the Unicode "extended grapheme cluster". The
+gain for it is about 35% - 40%. Bracketed character classes, e.g.,
+C<[0-9\x{100}]> containing code points above 255 are also now faster.
=back