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From: Alex Shinn <alexshinn@gmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: O(1) accessors for UTF-8 backed strings
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:42:34 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinRhXC_XQGJpqWS5vQBerFSY_+iv+ee_ibrH5uo@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tyf7oebc.fsf_-_@netris.org>

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>> I also think strings should remain what they currently are, with O(1)
>> random access.
>
> I just realized that it is possible to implement O(1) accessors for
> UTF-8 backed strings.

It's possible with several approaches, but not necessarily worth it:

http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/StringRepresentations

-- 
Alex



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-13  4:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-11  0:54 uc_tolower (uc_toupper (x)) Mike Gran
2011-03-11 22:33 ` Using libunistring for string comparisons et al Mark H Weaver
2011-03-11 22:36   ` Mark H Weaver
2011-03-11 23:09   ` Mark H Weaver
2011-03-12 13:46     ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-12 17:28       ` Mark H Weaver
2011-03-13 21:30         ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-30  9:05           ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-13  4:05       ` O(1) accessors for UTF-8 backed strings Mark H Weaver
2011-03-13  4:42         ` Alex Shinn [this message]
2011-03-15 15:46           ` Mark H Weaver
2011-03-16  0:07             ` Alex Shinn
2011-03-19 13:02             ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-30  9:20         ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-30  9:03     ` Using libunistring for string comparisons et al Andy Wingo
2011-03-31 14:19       ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-12 13:36   ` Ludovic Courtès

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