string is rarely useful as a function argument

[Timon Gehr]

On 12/31/2011 03:17 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:
>
> As for Walter being the only one coding by looking at the code units
> directly, that's not true. All my parser code look at code units
> directly and only decode to code points where necessary (just look at
> the XML parsing code I posted a while ago to get an idea to how it can
> apply to ranges). And I don't think it's because I've seen Walter code
> before, I think it is because I know how Unicode works and I want to
> make my parser efficient. I've done the same for a parser in C++ a while
> ago. I can hardly imagine I'm the only one (with Walter and you). I
> think this is how efficient algorithms dealing with Unicode should be
> written.
>

+1.