Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:06:31 +0100
> 
> Unibyte is a pure space optimisation.

I think it is (or at least was) also a speed optimization.  Reading or
writing a huge buffer full of eight-bit characters might be
significantly slower if they are in their multibyte representation.
Perhaps we should measure that.