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diff --git a/includes/normal/README b/includes/normal/README index 3424507d6f27..f8207a1b2e3e 100644 --- a/includes/normal/README +++ b/includes/normal/README @@ -32,3 +32,24 @@ have been changed or you remove it. data from from the net if necessary. If it reports failure, something is going wrong! + +== Benchmarks == + +Run 'make bench' to download some sample texts from Wikipedia and run some +cheap benchmarks of some of the functions. Take all numbers with large +grains of salt. + + +== PHP module extension == + +There's an experimental PHP extension module which wraps the ICU library's +normalization functions. This is *MUCH* faster than doing this work in pure +PHP code. This is in the 'normal' directory in MediaWiki's CVS extensions +module. It is known to work with PHP 4.3.8 and 5.0.2 on Linux/x86 but hasn't +been thoroughly tested on other configurations. + +If the php_normal.so module is loaded in php.ini, the normalization functions +will automatically use it. If you can't (or don't want to) load it in php.ini, +you may be able to load it using the dl() function before include()ing or +require()ing UtfNormal.php, and it will be picked up. + |