Linas Vepstas <[email protected]>:

> 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

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