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Re: Multibyte and unibyte file names


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Multibyte and unibyte file names
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:16:20 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

> Removing unibyte mode could probably be a big slowdown for visiting
> binary files, and might make it unreliable.

We do have some performance bugs in some related operations that we
might need to fix id we wanted to go down that way (IIRC, converting
a big unibyte buffer to multibyte, with many bytes >127, takes time
O(N^2)).

> This would need to be checked.

I don't see the need.  The problems we're facing are unrelated.


        Stefan



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