Kitura does not mandate any particular distribution, but 14.04 is one of
the distributions that we expect to support for some time.
I did investigate what's required to build a Swift snapshot with a newer
version of ICU on Linux. I was pleased to discover that of the support for
doing so is alrea
The performance issues in Ubuntu 14.04 is not surprising. 14.04’s ICU version
is ancient, relatively speaking (e.g. it predates both Swift and Unicode 7.0).
Performance issues is not the only problem there, as Unicode semantics such as
grapheme breaking has evolved dramatically since then. Out o
FWIW, here is an illustration of how much an optimization in this area
would be worth to Kitura, running on Ubuntu 14.04 (where ICU 52 is
particularly expensive when comparing ASCII strings [1]).
The workload I used here is https://github.com/tbrand/which_is_the_fastest
I have compiled Kitura 1.7.6
Unfortunately after some investigations and discussion, the situation seems to
be more murky. This approach would break transitivity of String comparison on
Linux, at least with any implementation of UCA using the normal collation
weights. A < B, B < C should imply A < C. But, if both A and B ar
