Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes

[Yaroslav Tsarko]

On 19.08.2014 19:24, Felix Winkelmann wrote:
> Sounds like a good first step, even though I personally would prefer
> UCS-4 strings (constant lookup + modification and so on). But that
> seems to be unpopular, AFAICT...

Wouldn`t that be possible to specify which internal string encoding is 
used by the core as a CHICKEN build-time option? For embedded systems 
with limited resources that will give a decent leverage to choose from - 
either consume more memory but more fast lookups etc (in the case of 
UCS-4) or consume less memory by the cost of UTF-8 conversions on the 
fly during string operations.

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Thanks,
Yaroslav