From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to calculate the size of string in bytes? Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:47:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150818101352.GA6744@tuxteam.de> <8a03e8f4-b65d-4b42-941b-6fc0624ffada@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440117460 4273 80.91.229.3 (21 Aug 2015 00:37:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:37:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 21 02:37:33 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZSaKq-00028k-G4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 02:37:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38401 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSaKq-0001Oa-0w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 20:37:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51587) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZS9NH-0002lS-5K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZS9ND-0002aA-Kw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:50:14 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53763) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZS9ND-0002a6-Eq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZS9N7-0007H9-Er for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 21:50:05 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-119-254-147.dsl.teksavvy.com ([75.119.254.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 21:50:05 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 75-119-254-147.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 21:50:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-119-254-147.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:b0d3jzBt00FLoUzBv7F9j2pY/M8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106723 Archived-At: > Heh, that's actually a very good suggestion. We'll keep that in mind if this > is ever a performance bottleneck. Actually, I recommend it for sanity reasons rather than performance reasons. It'll help you make sure the right encoding is used for the right data, and the "counts" do count the right elements as well. Stefan