New std.uni: ready for more beating

[dennis luehring]

would it make sense to incoporate test from the ICU testsuite - there 
are api tests and many data tests around

some can find the tests in the current release under

icu4c-50_1_2-src\icu\source\test

Am 29.01.2013 22:52, schrieb Dmitry Olshansky:
> Recap:
> During a couple of rounds of the informal review new std.uni had its
> docs happily destroyed, and later re-written based on the feedback.
>
> Notable changes:
>
> - Fixed a couple of latent bugs (ouch!)
>
> - unicode.xyz helper was redesigned to have a clear path for extension
> to properties other then binary ones. For instance to get all of code
> points with hangul syllable type L (leading Jamo):
>
> auto leadingJamo = unicode.hangulSyllableType("L");
>
> - Squeezed extra 31Kb slack from object-file size (32 bits, more on 64).
> Now all of the packed tables occupy around 350Kb (32bits) and
> If you happen to know some tricks to reduce object file size (and in
> turn the executable size), please chime in.
>
> Code & benchmark: https://github.com/blackwhale/gsoc-bench-2012
>
> Docs: http://blackwhale.github.com/phobos/uni.html
> (looks far better without the JS jump-table)
>
> It's a standalone module at the moment. To use in place of current
> std.uni replace 'std.uni'->'uni' in your programs and compare the
> results. Make sure that both uni and unicode_tables modules are linked
> in, rdmd can take care of this dependency.
>
> P.S. Time to go for the formal review?
>
> P.P.S. Got to catch some sleep ...
>