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2016-01-02 Thread Jens Geyer
Ok, thanks. The more I think about it it, the less beneficial it looks to me. JensG - Ursprüngliche Nachricht - Von: Randy Abernethy Gesendet: 01.01.2016 18:18 An: dev@thrift.apache.org Betreff: Re: UTF-16 Right now the "string" type in Apache Thrift is abstract. I like that. If you ar

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2016-01-01 Thread Jens Geyer
Yes, that was the question. It could eliminate some conversions from and to utf8 (speed is a Thrift goal) but I'm not sure if the possible gains are worth doing it. Re keeping it simple: I fully agree, absolutely. But we have 4 integer types and there are thoughts to integrate floats as well ..