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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: "Kim F. Storm" <no-spam@cua.dk>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa <handa@etl.go.jp>
Subject: Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:38:46 +0200 (IST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020319163616.19703A-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203191234.g2JCYaT01099@rum.cs.yale.edu>


On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> It's perfectly fine to use the
> eight-bit-control charset for the odd "unknown byte sequence",
> but for raw binary data, it's just a waste of memory and CPU
> resources.

I'd prefer some waste of cycles to the problems that unibyte text can 
beget.

But I'm not even sure there is a waste of cycles: it's quite possible 
that Emacs does the conversion, maybe even several times, behind our 
back.  If we really care about this, we should step through the code and 
see.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-19 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-18 23:12 struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data Kim F. Storm
2002-03-19  0:25 ` Miles Bader
2002-03-19  1:38 ` Re[1]: " Eric M. Ludlam
2002-03-19 12:56   ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-19 13:26     ` Re[3]: " Eric M. Ludlam
2002-03-19  7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-19 12:34   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-19 14:38     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-03-19 14:33 ` Luke Gorrie
     [not found] <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020319133840.17982G-100000@is>
2002-03-19 14:34 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-19 21:27   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-03-21  9:04   ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-21 11:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-21 13:31       ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-21 14:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-21 15:36           ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-21 16:58             ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-21 19:45               ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-22  1:05                 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-22 11:04                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-22  0:37           ` Miles Bader
2002-03-23  2:35           ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-21 16:53         ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-23  2:36       ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-22  1:25 Kenichi Handa
2002-03-22  1:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-22  1:30 Kenichi Handa

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