On 2008.02.29., at 21:13, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

> It does, but that's not really any better. We don't have char, we have
> byte. The overhead of decoding our bytes to chars and back all the  
> time
> was huge. So we needed a fast byte[]-based engine.

This always intrigued me -- does this mean Ruby only works with single- 
byte character encodings? Or maybe even with just a single fixed  
character encoding?

Attila.


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