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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Brennan Vincent <brennan@umanwizard.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a mechanism for passing unibyte strings from lisp to modules.
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 22:08:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86v822jeqh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240621181400.174822-2-brennan@umanwizard.com> (message from Brennan Vincent on Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:13:14 -0400)

> From: Brennan Vincent <brennan@umanwizard.com> 
> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:13:14 -0400
> 
> Since the introduction of make_unibyte_string, it has been possible to pass
> raw binary data from modules to lisp, but not the other way around
> (except by using vectors of bytes, which is inefficient). This
> patch implements that feature so that raw binary data can be sent both ways.

Please describe the motivation and real-life use cases for this.

In general, we want to minimize the use of unibyte strings in Emacs.

I also don't understand the need for unibyte-string-p, since we
already have multibyte-string-p.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-06-21 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-21 18:13 [PATCH] Add a mechanism for passing unibyte strings from lisp to modules Brennan Vincent
2024-06-21 18:13 ` Brennan Vincent
2024-06-21 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-06-21 20:14   ` Brennan Vincent
2024-06-22  6:50     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <87o77t6lyn.fsf@taipei.mail-host-address-is-not-set>
2024-06-22 16:12         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-23 21:15           ` Andrea Corallo
2024-06-24 11:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-25 17:36               ` Brennan Vincent
2024-06-26 12:26                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-26 12:39                   ` tomas
2024-06-26 13:23                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-26 13:33                       ` tomas
2024-06-26 14:32                         ` Brennan Vincent
2024-06-26 15:53                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-26 15:34                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-27  3:36                           ` Brennan Vincent
2024-06-27  6:05                             ` Eli Zaretskii

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