Damn. Too bad... :( Hope we can find other areas to improve.
Regards, Pierre-Arnaud On 28 févr. 2013, at 14:32, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > yesterday, while I was cutting a release, I wanted to play with some > idea I had a few years ago : make all the Value storing byte[] instead > of having a dichotomy between StringValue and BinaryValue. > > I created a new branch for taht, and started to code. Today, I realize > that due to the enormous impact it would have on our code base, it's > probably not a good idea to go any further : > - the PrepareString function depends heavily on Strings and Unicode, it > would be painful to make it work with UTF-8. Not to mention we have to > go through this method for every string we receive. > - The DN and RDN are also heavily depending on String > - the gain won't be enormous : once converted, serializing a String on > disk is just a matter of storing some few extra informations. > > Sooooo, I decided to stop there. > > FUI. > > -- > Regards, > Cordialement, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com >
