On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Cameron Zwarich <zwar...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Are UTF8-backed (as opposed to Latin1-backed) JS strings with random access > going to be a real possibility in SpiderMonkey? It’s obviously possible to > make random access work with an appropriate indexing data structure, but > popular JS benchmarks are pretty sensitive to string performance.
Jan de Mooij (a.k.a. jandem) is implementing them. My understanding is that he considered utf8 as well, and concluded that latin1 would be simpler and give the same performance benefits. But he also said that if utf8 is needed in the future, the latin1 work should pave the way substantially. So I wouldn't count on utf8 soon, but it might happen at some point. Nick _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
