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bug#56347: Optimize/simplify STRING_SET_MULTIBYTE
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#56347: Optimize/simplify STRING_SET_MULTIBYTE |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Jul 2022 14:00:41 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> No, I want to reduce the scope of semantics of the macro, e.g. so it can
>> be implemented as a function rather than a macro and so it doesn't
>> magically substitute empty_multibyte_string into a variable that held
>> something else.
> But the effect is that you disallow calling STRING_SET_MULTIBYTE on an
> empty string, isn't it?
Yes. In my book, STRING_SET_*IBYTE should basically not exist: a string
is created as unibyte or multibyte and never changes after that.
And indeed because we only have a single copy of the two possible empty
strings, they can't be changed between unibyte<->multibyte
Stefan
bug#56347: Optimize/simplify STRING_SET_MULTIBYTE, Stefan Monnier, 2022/07/02