From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2003 - 07:24:39 CST
On 15/10/2003 05:08, Jill Ramonsky wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Kirk [mailto:peterkirk@qaya.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 12:19 PM
> > To: Unicode List
> > Subject: Canonical equivalence in rendering: mandatory or recommended?
> >
> >
> > Does everyone agree that "This is not a performance issue"?
>
> In my experience, there /is/ a performance hit.
>
> ...
>
Thank you, Jill. Clearly there is a performance hit in this rather
general case or in an application in which string handling is dominant
and speed critical. My question was more specific to rendering processes
for complex scripts, where string handling is not already a major part
of the processing but matters of glyph selection and positioning are. My
instinct would be that in such circumstances the extra processing
required for normalisation is almost trivial, especially with
appropriate caching etc. But I have heard other opinions.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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