Eric Cholet wrote in perl.unicode :
I just did a profiling on one of my programs, and it turns out it
spends most of its time in utf8::SWASHNEW. In second place is one of my
own functions, and in third place comes utf8::SWASHGET. What do
SWASHNEW and SWASHGET do ? (in layman's terms-- I browsed the source
but it gave me a headache). Is this a price to pay when using Perl
unicode strings?
They're used to load and initialise the swatchs, ie. internal hashes
that contain unicode properties (sets of unicode chars, e.g.
alphabetics, etc).
So, they're typically called rarely. Can you post an example of code
that reproduces the problem ?
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