HN has a strange fascination with strlen implementations. For anyone who missed it a few months ago, cperciva put up an interesting article about strlen for UT

HN has a strange fascination with strlen implementations. For anyone who missed it a few months ago, cperciva put up an interesting article about strlen for UTF-8 (variable character width) strings. http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-06-05-faster-utf8-strlen.html http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-06-05-faster-utf8-strle...