Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:31:23 +0000
On 24/06/2025 13:56, Niall Douglas wrote:
> This is what I am asking now - would WG14 like me to write a paper exploring the overheads of UTF-8 compatible variable length prefixing of variable length octet arrays? I think that for short strings, the overhead would be exactly nil, but it will rise as a percentage of total as strings get longer before shrinking again.
Seeing as I am unemployed, I went ahead and wrote up that paper. A first draft is attached.
See what you all make of it.
Niall
> This is what I am asking now - would WG14 like me to write a paper exploring the overheads of UTF-8 compatible variable length prefixing of variable length octet arrays? I think that for short strings, the overhead would be exactly nil, but it will rise as a percentage of total as strings get longer before shrinking again.
Seeing as I am unemployed, I went ahead and wrote up that paper. A first draft is attached.
See what you all make of it.
Niall
Received on 2025-06-24 16:31:24