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| From: | Andreas Schwab |
| Subject: | Re: utf8 and emacs text/string multibyte representation |
| Date: | Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:00:48 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes: >> * Camm Maguire <address@hidden> [2014-10-30 10:16:15 -0400]: >> >> Do these other lisps allocate a fresh character on each aref? > > Of course not! > A character is an immediate object, a word. > Even a 32-bit system has words big enough to store all Unicode. Or rather enough bits to store all unicode values plus tags bits. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, address@hidden GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
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