Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Cost of Unicode strings for ASCII data

[Colin A. <col...@ho...>]

>From: Eric Bezault <er...@go...>

>Colin Adams wrote:
>>In a test Eiffel program, I read the entire file into a STRING_8, and I 
>>then created a new string from that data. The elapsed time of the program 
>>depends upon the dynamic type of the resulting string. Here are my 
>>timings:
>>
>>STRING_8: 7 seconds
>>STRING_32: 13 seconds
>>UC_UTF8_STRING: 14 seconds.
>
>Which compiler did you use?

ISE 5.7

>Out of curiosity, did you try with gec?

No.

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