From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philipp Stephani
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 18:45:19 +0200
>
> Currently creating unibyte strings with the C module API is rather
> convoluted: one has to create a list with the individual bytes and the= n
> call `unibyte-string', requiring lots of memory allocations.=C2=A0= Given that
> creating a unibyte string is more fundamental than creating a multibyt= e
> string, I propose adding functions to create and extract unibyte strin= gs
> that exactly mirror the existing support for multibyte strings.
Can you explain why you need to create unibyte strings, or describe a
use case where this would be required?