On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 10/16/12 10:48 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > >> On the other hand, for every part of the engine except JS, UTF8 is ideal. >> >> I think it's worth investigating supporting UTF8 strings in the JS engine. >> One option: the first time someone calls charAt() or similar on the >> string, >> build an auxiliary UTF16 copy of the string and keep it around. >> > > I talked to Terrence about this a bit today, and he was going to talk to > dmandelin about feasibility... One of the hard parts here is how to not > regress Gecko performance in the process. :( > #ifdefs :-) Rob -- “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. ... If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others?" [Matthew 5:43-47] _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
