On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:02:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm worried about the performance overhead of this conversion.
How much is this performance overhead? Converting UTF-8 to UTF-16 is
computationally trivial; my guess is that it would be significant for
cat or grep (maybe . . . the running time Unicode regexs and
canonization of the input may dwarf the running time of the conversion),
but not for anything that will run for a significant time or do
significant processing on the input (say a wordprocessor, or a speech
synthesizer).
My guess on the overhead may be wrong, but the only way to really find
out is to actually measure it - always a good idea in optimization.
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