On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 at 16:48:28 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 at 15:48:09 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 at 11:18:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8js69n/validating_utf8_strings_using_as_little_as_07/
Sigh, this reminds me of the old quote about people spending a
bunch of time making more efficient what shouldn't be done at
all.
Validating UTF-8 is super common, most text protocols and files
these days would use it, other would have an option to do so.
I’d like our validateUtf to be fast, since right now we do
validation every time we decode string. And THAT is slow.
Trying to not validate on decode means most things should be
validated on input...
I think you know what I'm referring to, which is that UTF-8 is a
badly designed format, not that input validation shouldn't be
done.
