2014-07-23 19:03 GMT+02:00 tim Rowledge <tim@rowledge.org>:

Oh surely we can come up with something even crazier? How about for the 64bit layout having the bottom 24bits be the character and the top 39 be a pseudo pointer to the next char in the string?

Note that you somehow have that with UTF8, the number of bits set in the character (if > 127) indicates the position of the next char already ;)

It's thus a pseudo pointer (relative).

/tim
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