Regardless of whether it’s a good idea, there is enough inertia behind it by now that making it faster is a worthwhile project. In Rust and probably many other

Regardless of whether it’s a good idea, there is enough inertia behind it by now that making it faster is a worthwhile project. In Rust and probably many other languages, if you want to work with non-utf8-validated text you’ll be fighting the ecosystem every step of the way.