Hi,
On 31 July 2014 16:47, Eleytherios Stamatogiannakis wrote:
> Wouldn't it be faster to have a ffi.stringUTF8 for the case where we know
> the input is in UTF8?
It seems the truth is the opposite of what you expect. Right now,
`ffi.string(p).decode('utf-8')` does two copies, whereas in the
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Hello,
First of all, directly supporting UTF8 in CFFI has been discussed
before. I'm bringing the same subject again because now PyPy aims to
convert to using UTF8 internally by default. So the question is, will
CFFI take advantage of that?
Right now cffi_backend's "b_string" works with ASCI
