Re: Unicode combining characters

> > Ok. I ran the modified test (now the iteration is reduced to 100000 in
> > liketest()). As you can see, there's huge difference. MB seems up to
> > ~8 times slower:-< There seems some problems existing in the
> > implementation. Considering REGEX is not so slow, maybe we should
> > employ the same design as REGEX. i.e. using wide charcters, not
> > multibyte streams...

Let me add I think our regex code is very slow.  It is the standard BSD
regex library by Henry Spencer.  He rewrote it a few years ago for TCL
8.X and said he was working on a standalone library version.  I have
asked him several times via email over the years but he still has not
released a standalone version of the new optimized regex code.  It is on
our TODO list.

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