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John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> With those points in mind and thinking more broadly, I'd like to try harder
> on recomposition. Even several times faster, recomposition is still orders
> of magnitude slower than ICU, as measured by Daniel Verite [1].

Huh.  Has anyone looked into how they do it?

			regards, tom lane