Given that the regular expression has already become more complex (after the initial patch adding it), it seems to me that it probably cannot hurt to add a global cache to reduce unnecessary re-parsing.
Obviously the `Glyph`-instances are being cached *per* font, however in most documents multiple fonts are being used and in practice there's very often a fair amount of overlap between the /ToUnicode-data in different fonts[1].
Consider for example loading and rendering the entire `tracemonkey.pdf` document (from the test-suite), which isn't a particularily large document. In that case the `getCharUnicodeCategory` function is being called a total of `601` times, however there's only `106` *unique* unicode-chars being checked.
*Please note:* In practice I suppose that this won't have a *huge* effect on overall performance, however given the relative simplicity of this patch I figured that it'd not hurt to submit it for review.
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[1] Consider e.g. how there's usually different fonts used for regular, bold, respectively italic text.