2014-07-23 19:03 GMT+02:00 tim Rowledge <tim at 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
> {insert witticism here}
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> > What about making WideString the only one?
> >
> > *duckandcover*
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> >> /tim
> >> {insert witticism here}
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