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Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful
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Marko Rauhamaa |
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Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful |
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Sat, 15 Jul 2017 00:59:26 +0300 |
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Linas Vepstas <address@hidden>:
> String handling in guile is a disaster area: If I give it a
> 10-megabyte-long string in utf8, it promptly tries to convert all of
> that string in utf32, for utterly pointless reasons. This just makes
> it slow.
It's not only the conversion. Strings should be bytes. Python3's example
shouldn't have been followed.
Marko