On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:02:24 +0200, Steven Schveighoffer
<schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:20:41 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
On 10/22/2011 2:21 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
Which operations do you believe would be less efficient?
All of the ones that don't require decoding, such as searching, would
be less efficient if decoding was done.
Searching that does not do decoding is fundamentally incorrect. That
is, if you want to find a substring in a string, you cannot just compare
chars.
Assuming both string are valid UTF-8, you can. Continuation bytes can never
be confused with the first byte of a code point, and the first byte always
identifies how many continuation bytes there should be.
--
Simen
