[Python-Dev] Unicode patches checked in

[Jean-Claude Wippler]

David Ascher wrote:

[shareable unicodedatabase]
> I know it's complicating things, but wouldn't an mmap'ed buffer allow
> inter-process sharing while keeping DLL size down and everything
> on-disk until needed?

AFAIK, on platforms which support mmap, static data already gets mmap'ed
in by the OS (just like all code), so this might have little effect.

I'm more concerned by the distribution size increase.

-jcw