Re: g_malloc overhead

2009-01-29 Thread Paul LeoNerd Evans
e biggest reasons, is that UTF-8 does not use \0 octets, whereas UTF-16 does. This means that UTF-8 data can transparently pass through all of the usual str*() functions in C, such as strlen(), strcpy(), etc... -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk ICQ# 4135350 | Regis

Re: GTK 3.0: an app developer's view

2008-06-17 Thread Paul LeoNerd Evans
ithm in their compiler; it's something that's just done for them. Who's to say what, in 20 or 30 years time, compilers and other programmer tools will be doing for us. I suspect very strongly that building UIs automatically around some description of the task to be solved, will fa