[erlang-questions] pre-load large data files when the application start

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

I notice a lot of lines like

,"0001" => { "0", "", ""}
,"0002" => { "0", "", ""}
,"0003" => { "0", "", ""}
,"0004" => { "0", "", ""}
,"0005" => { "0", "", ""}
,"0006" => { "0", "", ""}
,"0007" => { "0", "", ""}

I just wonder whether factoring {"0","",""} out
would help at all.

I also notice that the lines are all
     "<hex>" => {"<dec>", "<stuff>", "<hex>"}
and wonder whether having three maps
    <int> => "<dec>"
    <int> => "<stuff>"
    <int> => "<hex>"
and then
     lookup(Codepoint) ->
         N = list_to_integer(Codepoint, 16),
         A = maps:get(N, ?BY_CODE_TO_DEC,   false),
         B = maps:get(N, ?BY_CODE_TO_STUFF, false),
         C = maps:get(N, ?BY_CODE_TO_HEX,   false),
         if A == false -> false
          ; true -> {A, B, C}
         end.
might give the compiler less trouble.

I mean, it seems a bit odd to do

lookup(Codepoint) ->
     idna_unicode_data:lookup(hex(Codepoint)).

when you could do

lookup(Codepoint) ->
     idna_unicode_data:lookup(Codepoint).

In fact, since different functions in idna_unicode.erl
are interested in different bits of the triples, I
don't understand why these weren't separate maps to
begin with.