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because it'd have an extreme effect on performance? UTF-8 is great in terms of size, but terrible in terms of speed.
by axod 18y ago
because it'd have an extreme effect on performance?
UTF-8 is great in terms of size, but terrible in terms of speed.
- neilc 18y agoHow "extreme" are we talking about? Some empirical data would be helpful. I'd also be curious to see data about what % of the characters in all the strings in a typical Java program aren't in 7-bit ASCII. I wouldn't be surprised if 7-bit ASCII characters are a large majority of the total, which makes the case for UTF-16 less compelling.