Oh for a chip with 21-bit wide registers! :-) Jill
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ;-)
