From: Tom Lord <lord@emf.net>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Worrying development
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:53:25 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401240053.QAA28339@morrowfield.regexps.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r7xqqjg8.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (message from Marius Vollmer on Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:27:51 +0100)
> From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
> > Well, heck. In that case, maybe consider what I'm planning for Pika
> > (at least initially). Purely ASCII strings are stored 1-byte per
> > character. Most other strings 2-bytes per character. Strings using
> > characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, 4 bytes per
> > character.
> Yes, that's an attractive approach. But I also find simply using
> UTF-8 exclusively very attractive. It might fit better with what
> other people are doing and we might need fewer conversions when
> wrapping external libraries. Or maybe not.
In case it helps seduce you to the dark side of the force just a
little more:
Having wrappings of external libraries mostly rely on
copying/converting strings is a win for thread support. Having
FFI-using routines directly access or munge string data is, in
general, pretty touchy. It is, I admit, a total pain in the butt
that so much existing code already does access string data directly --
but for the most part, that code is unlikely to be expecting UTF-8
anyway so......
-t
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-16 9:41 Worrying development Roland Orre
2004-01-16 11:59 ` tomas
2004-01-18 21:05 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-18 21:58 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-22 21:47 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-22 16:11 ` Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-22 18:42 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-23 11:45 ` Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-23 17:16 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-23 21:01 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-23 22:18 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-24 0:27 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-24 0:53 ` Tom Lord [this message]
2004-01-23 22:28 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-24 12:09 ` rm
2004-01-24 13:29 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-26 2:42 ` overriding car/cdr (was: Worrying development) Paul Jarc
2004-02-08 16:21 ` overriding car/cdr Dirk Herrmann
2004-02-08 18:09 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-02-08 20:56 ` Paul Jarc
2004-03-20 22:28 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-03-22 17:05 ` David Van Horn
2004-03-22 21:03 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-03-22 17:24 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-23 22:37 ` Worrying development Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-23 23:25 ` Tom Lord
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