Re: [TCLCORE] Agressive shimmering

[Alexandre F. <ale...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Porter, Don <don...@ni...> wrote:
>
> The shimmer happens so that we have someplace to store the computed
> length in chars, so when it's asked for again we don't have to compute it again.

Maybe a smarter strategy could do that only when the typePtr is NULL
(nothing to lose but memory).
For all other cases (except ByteArray, which is efficiently
specialized away), a CountPseudoUTF8Chars O(1) scan could address
Brian's concerns.

-Alex