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Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data |
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Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:38:46 +0200 (IST) |
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> It's perfectly fine to use the
> eight-bit-control charset for the odd "unknown byte sequence",
> but for raw binary data, it's just a waste of memory and CPU
> resources.
I'd prefer some waste of cycles to the problems that unibyte text can
beget.
But I'm not even sure there is a waste of cycles: it's quite possible
that Emacs does the conversion, maybe even several times, behind our
back. If we really care about this, we should step through the code and
see.
- struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data, Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/18
- Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data, Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/19
- Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2002/03/19
- Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/21
- Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/03/21
- Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data, Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/21
- Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/03/21
- Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data, Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/21
- Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/21
- Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/03/21