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by jerf 3773 days ago
"About your 10 MB Unicode table example, "

The precise thing that I have personally experienced is Encode::HanExtra for Perl "getting around" in my code base and being able to save a couple of megabytes by loading it only when necessary. But the principle is the same, I'm sure. Full databases on all the characters in Unicode and such gets quite large!