I recommend checking out how the Perl 6 MoarVM implementation of these things has been handled. Specifically with respect to optimising string match and indexin

I recommend checking out how the Perl 6 MoarVM implementation of these things has been handled. Specifically with respect to optimising string match and indexing. Samantha McVey the main dev looking at unicode in the VM at the moment just implemented the Unicode collation rules ontop of full normalised strings too https://github.com/MoarVM/MoarVM/blob/master/docs/collation.asciidoc https://github.com/MoarVM/MoarVM/blob/master/docs/collation....