VLERange: a range in between BidirectionalRange and RandomAccessRange

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:00:57 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 1/17/11 6:44 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> We need to get some real numbers together. I'll see what I can create
>> for a type, but someone else needs to supply the input :) I'm on short
>> supply of unicode data, and any attempts I've made to create some result
>> in failure. I have one example of one composed character in this thread
>> that I can cling to, but in order to supply some real numbers, we need a
>> large amount of data.
>
> Oh, one more thing. You don't need a lot of Unicode text containing  
> combining characters to write benchmarks. (You do need it for testing  
> purposes.) Most text won't contain combining characters anyway, so after  
> you implement graphemes, just benchmark them on regular text.

True, benchmarking doesn't apply with combining characters because we have  
nothing to compare it to.  The current scheme fails on it anyways, so it  
by default would be the best solution.

-Steve