If you are using the "mini" version of SCSU where Latin-1 characters are stored as 1 byte each and everything else is stored as UTF-16 (using SCU and UC0 tags to switch between modes), you ought to achieve really good speed.
I'll have to try this. The speed hit on using full SCSU was very noticeable.
Ultimately, I suspect what I should do is provide some means of letting the user choose the appropriate algorithm and trade-off between speed and space for their data, possibly via a system property, a flag in the class, or even a build-time option. However, that's going to have to wait for 1.1. For 1.0, I just want to pick something that's a reasonable compromise across the most common cases.
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