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Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes
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Felix Winkelmann |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Aug 2014 10:40:31 +0200 (CEST) |
From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 10:02:51 +0200
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:59:58AM +0400, Yaroslav Tsarko wrote:
>> On 19.08.2014 19:24, Felix Winkelmann wrote:
>> >
>> >Sounds like a good first step, even though I personally would prefer
>> >UCS-4 strings (constant lookup + modification and so on). But that
>> >seems to be unpopular, AFAICT...
>>
>> Wouldn`t that be possible to specify which internal string encoding is
>> used by the core as a CHICKEN build-time option? For embedded systems
>> with limited resources that will give a decent leverage to choose from -
>> either consume more memory but more fast lookups etc (in the case of
>> UCS-4) or consume less memory by the cost of UTF-8 conversions on the
>> fly during string operations.
>
> I think it would be possible, but I dislike the idea because it is hard
> to maintain two separate compilation options like that.
Well, actually we might as well support several: ASCII/Latin-1, UTF-8
and UCS-2/UCS-4. Without UTF-8 it would just be a variable
element-size option. But I agree that this doesn't make maintenance
any easier... Let's think some more about this. We don't have to
decide right now.
felix
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes, (continued)
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes, Peter Bex, 2014/08/19
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes, Felix Winkelmann, 2014/08/19
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes, Felix Winkelmann, 2014/08/19
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes, Peter Bex, 2014/08/19
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes, Felix Winkelmann, 2014/08/19
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes, Yaroslav Tsarko, 2014/08/20
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes, Peter Bex, 2014/08/20
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes,
Felix Winkelmann <=
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes, Alex Shinn, 2014/08/20
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes, John Cowan, 2014/08/20
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes, Felix Winkelmann, 2014/08/20
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes, John Cowan, 2014/08/20
Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes, John Cowan, 2014/08/18