[armedbear-devel] Optimizing loading times: different strategy for externalizing

[Ville Voutilainen]

On 21 May 2010 12:42, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would that preclude having unicode string constants?
> We could encode Unicode strings in ASCII, escaping non-ASCII
> characters some way. What could be more problematic is symbols with

How's that any faster than doing the utf-8 conversion as we do now? The
"escaping non-ASCII characters" thingy has a name, it's called.. *drumroll*..
utf-8. :)