From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:38:46 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200203191234.g2JCYaT01099@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016548946 5094 127.0.0.1 (19 Mar 2002 14:42:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Kim F. Storm" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16nKok-0001K4-00 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:42:26 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16nKu4-0006fo-00 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:47:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nKoa-00089K-00; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:42:16 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nKmM-0007Kw-00 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:39:59 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA19732; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:38:47 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <200203191234.g2JCYaT01099@rum.cs.yale.edu> Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2043 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2043 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. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel