Re: size of emacs executable after unicode merge

[Thomas Lord]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> How big are the data structures holding all the unicode character info 
> and translation tables for encodings? 


If that turns out to be the problem, will someone please contact me 
directly?
(I ask that because I mostly just skim this list and so miss things.)

Several years back I devoted a pretty decent number of hours to working
out good ways to compress the run-time representation of such tables
without sacrificing much performance on accesses.   If it would be helpful,
I can take a little bit of time to refresh my memory of how I did it and
report that to someone working on the problem in Emacs, thus hopefully
saving time (and squeaking a little bit more "payout" from my initial
investment).

-t