<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Raymond Toy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toy.raymond@gmail.com">toy.raymond@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
(I was surprised to see ecl choose the smallest string type to fit a literal string.)<br></blockquote></div><br>Why? I mean, an ordinary unicode string without utf-8 packing takes 4 times the room of a base string. Since ECL is using a string buffer to read objects, then why shouldn't it pack them to the smallest representation when possible?<div>
<br></div><div>Juanjo<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) <br><a href="http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com" target="_blank">http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com</a><br>
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