Scheme language standardization process
On 07/02/2014 07:16 PM, Bear wrote: > Are there any extant examples of 3-byte code units in strings? > I would find that - interesting. I too would be surprised. What might make sense is packing 3 20-bit (or 21-bit) characters in a 64-bit long. That would use 2.67 bytes per character and be quite friendly to modern hardware. Almost certainly faster that using 32 bits per character, due to better locality. Probably not a good choice for Kawa, though, since I think it is more important to implement the java.lang.CharSequence interface efficiently. -- --Per Bothner per@x http://per.bothner.com/ _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list Scheme-reports@x http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports