[squeak-dev] 30 bit unboxed floats

Colin Putney colin at wiresong.com
Mon Oct 18 20:49:52 UTC 2010


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think immediate characters are much more generally useful, especially
> considering unicode.  The current implementation of only codes 0 to 255
> being == is error-prone.

I enthusiastically agree. I think string handling in Squeak is pretty
weak, and having efficient Characters would provide a solid basis for
improving it.

Colin



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