require "unicode_utils" takes a very long time

[retorquere]

I've installed unicode_utils on R2.0 on windows 7 x64. When I execute this:

require "time"
beginning_time = Time.now
require "unicode_utils"
end_time = Time.now
puts "Time elapsed #{(end_time - beginning_time)} seconds"

it outputs "Time elapsed 94.805422 seconds" (or something to that effect -- times vary between 93 and 101 seconds"

[G0dwin]

I think this issue is windows specific, I am also experiencing it on Win8.1. I have been able to narrow the problem down to /lib/unicode_utils/charname.rb:9 where the NAME_MAP is loaded.

[eikes]

I can confirm this problem on windows machines:

Windows 7: 125 seconds
Windows Server 2008 R2: 154 seconds

[danowar2k]

When the "names" files is read and put into a map, on Windows 7 64 Bit using mintty this is very very slow, to the point I stopped the program because I thought it hanged.

unicode_utils/lib/unicode_utils/read_cdata.rb

Line 72 in 52e54c9

def self.read_names(filename)