On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Raymond Toy <toy.raym...@gmail.com> wrote:

> (I was surprised to see ecl choose the smallest string type to fit a
> literal string.)
>

Why? I mean, an ordinary unicode string without utf-8 packing takes 4 times
the room of a base string. Since ECL is using a string buffer to read
objects, then why shouldn't it pack them to the smallest representation
when possible?

Juanjo

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