On Jun 22, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Robert Collins wrote: > bzr has a cache of decoded strings in it precisely because decode is > slow. We accept slowness encoding to the users locale because thats > typically much less data to examine than we've examined while > generating the commit/diff/whatever. We also face memory pressure on a > regular basis, and that has been, at least partly, due to UCS4 - our > translation cache helps there because we have less duplicate UCS4 > strings.
Thanks for setting the record straight - apologies if I missed this earlier in the thread. It does seem vaguely familiar.
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