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What about implementing text algorithms like prefix search or a suffix tree to mention the simplest ones? Don't you need a string length at various points there

What about implementing text algorithms like prefix search or a suffix tree to mention the simplest ones? Don't you need a string length at various points there?

account42 1y ago
With UTF-8 you can implement them on top of bytes.
- jlarocco 1y ago
  That's basically what a string data type is for.