On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Luke Wagner <l...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Nick just brought up the topic of adding a second compact string > representation to the JS engine (motivated by string memory use). One > question was whether to use ASCII (which V8 does, iirc) or UTF8. Several > DOM people have pointed out over the years that if SM would accept UTF8 > it'd be really good for Gecko, so I was leaning toward UTF8 but hoping for > some measurement of how much it'd win over ASCII to back this up. Sounds > like UTF8 would serve Servo well too. > I think the biggest win for using a UTF8-alike is that it lets you write a single code path that's optimal for ASCII but also handles everything else. Rob -- Jtehsauts tshaei dS,o n" Wohfy Mdaon yhoaus eanuttehrotraiitny eovni le atrhtohu gthot sf oirng iyvoeu rs ihnesa.r"t sS?o Whhei csha iids teoa stiheer :p atroa lsyazye,d 'mYaonu,r "sGients uapr,e tfaokreg iyvoeunr, 'm aotr atnod sgaoy ,h o'mGee.t" uTph eann dt hwea lmka'n? gBoutt uIp waanndt wyeonut thoo mken.o w _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
