> On 25 Sep 2020, at 04:25, Brad Gilbert <b2gi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rakudo does not use ICU > > It used to though. > > Rakudo used to run on Parrot. > Parrot used ICU for its Unicode features.
Ah, the days. I do remember that in the Parrot days, any non-ASCII character in any string, would have a significant negative effect on grammar parsing. This was usually not that visible when trying to run a script, but the time needed to compile the core setting (which already took a few minutes then) rose (probably exponentially) to: well, I don't know. The last time I tried to see if it would actually complete, I killed the compilation process after an hour. People complain about compilation taking long these days, and they're right: it should be better. But still, compared to the Parrot days... it's orders of magnitude better now. Liz
