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

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:59:58AM +0400, Yaroslav Tsarko wrote:
> 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.

I think it would be possible, but I dislike the idea because it is hard
to maintain two separate compilation options like that.

Cheers,
Peter
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