[cl-ppcre-devel] Re: [Sbcl-devel] unicode and cl-ppcre performance

[Edi Weitz]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:24:06 +0000, Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Also, does setting cl-ppcre:*regex-char-code-limit* to 128 before
> making your parser function make any difference?

That does the trick, thanks.  I should have thought about this myself,
sorry.

Could you explain, for a Unicode ignorant like me, why CHAR-CODE-LIMIT
is so high in SBCL and CLISP?  Does Unicode really define 1114112
characters?

Thanks,
Edi.