Re: [boost] [string] proposal

Subject: Re: [boost] [string] proposal
From: Stewart, Robert (Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-28 08:59:33

Matus Chochlik wrote:
>
> I have had the exactly the same feeling (about the apples and
> orangutans) the whole time I've participated in the immutable
> vs. unicode string discussion. I know that Dean tries to focus
> on performance and does not care about encodings and I do care
> about performance just not so much Dean, does.

That's unfair and wrong.  Dean's view<utf8_encoding> type was roughly equivalent to your utf8_string (names aside) all along.  He espouses a different approach to managing data storage and the encoding than do you, but that doesn't mean he "does not care about encodings."

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Rob Stewart                           robert.stewart_at_[hidden]
Software Engineer, Core Software      using std::disclaimer;
Susquehanna International Group, LLP  http://www.sig.com

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