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    Currently, we are using unibyte buffers for various internal
    operations (e.g rmail, tar-mode, jka-compr, ...).

    It is theoretically possible to modify all of them to use a
    multibyte buffer that contains only ASCII and eight-bit
    chars.  But, as it may make the operations slow, I don't see
    a merit in doing that.

    Is that what you want to know?

Yes.  It means we certainly don't want to eliminate unibyte buffers.