From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:12:52 +0300 Message-ID: <83lhvtdzrf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831txozsqa.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppl7y30l.fsf@gnu.org> <87r45nouvx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8361myyac6.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9capqfr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83eh1mfd09.fsf@gnu.org> <87ob0pnyt6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396091575 4980 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2014 11:12:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:12:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 29 12:13:04 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrCB-0002Sn-Fr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:13:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38437 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrCB-0002dx-2N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47810) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrC3-0002Xd-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:13:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrBy-0007Rz-HL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:12:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:51469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrBy-0007Rv-9m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N37000002ZPH200@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:12:48 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N370004535C6870@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:12:48 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171134 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:06:31 +0100 > > Unibyte is a pure space optimisation. I think it is (or at least was) also a speed optimization. Reading or writing a huge buffer full of eight-bit characters might be significantly slower if they are in their multibyte representation. Perhaps we should measure that.