[XOM-interest] XOM file causes my Eclipse editor to crash
Elliotte Harold
elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Thu Oct 18 06:53:06 EDT 2007
Michael Kay wrote:
> I had a few problems with compiler limits in this area in Saxon too, though
> my approach is a bit different. I ended up creating a source module
> containing the raw data in which the lists of integers are represented as
> strings containing comma-separated base-32 values; I then parse the strings
> out into the run-time tables needed to drive the algorithm. Don't ask me why
> it wasn't base-64, I'm sure it made sense at the time.
>
I've done something like that too in a different method. I suspect we're
doing it for the same reason: lookup tables that cover the entire Basic
Multilingual Plane to enable fast checking of various character properties.
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