Re: Recent releases of ConTeXt LMTX crash at \starttext when expl3 is loaded

On 05/08/2026 10:24, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
> On 8/5/2026 10:18 AM, Joseph Wright wrote:
> 
>> It's not just ConTeXt, of course: any change in data loading would 
>> also need to be done for plain, OpTeX, etc., and the probability of 
>> agreement is very low. (We use the same data loading code in LaTeX and 
>> other formats, it's just that in LaTeX that's done in format-building 
>> and dumped. We really don't want multiple code paths.)
> 
> loading more in the format also creates mor hash colisions, stuff 
> spreading over memory so less cache hits, duplicate stuff (why unicode 
> at all when we already have that; i'd just not loaded it) 
If it's documented where to find it :-) (We use the case mappings, the 
NFD decompositions and the Unicode class stuff.)

Joseph
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