chromatic wrote:
> We'd have to add a function to the encoding API and change
> Parrot_str_find_cclass() to perform this, but that should be an hour of work
> for an enterprising hacker for a surprising performance improvement. It's
> relatively low-risk as well, so if someone can do it in the next 12 hours, it
> may be worth including in Tuesday's release.
Implemented as r38853. Looks like it shaved about 8 seconds off the
time it takes to build rakudo on my laptop.
Mark