From: Arcane Jill (arcanejill@ramonsky.com)
Date: Thu Dec 02 2004 - 07:19:52 CST
Oh for a chip with 21-bit wide registers!
:-)
Jill
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From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
Behalf Of Antoine Leca
Sent: 02 December 2004 12:12
To: Unicode Mailing List
Subject: Re: Nicest UTF
There are other factors that might influence your choice.
For example, the relative cost of using 16-bit entities: on a Pentium it is
cheap, on more modern X86 processors the price is a bit higher, and on some
RISC chips it is prohibitive (that is, short may become 32 bits; obviously,
in such a case, UTF-16 is not really a good choice). On the other extreme,
you have processors where byte are 16 bits; obviously again, then UTF-8 is
not optimum there. ;-)
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