Challenge: write a really really small front() for UTF8

[Dmitry Olshansky]

24-Mar-2014 01:34, Andrei Alexandrescu пишет:
> On 3/23/14, 2:29 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> 24-Mar-2014 01:22, Andrei Alexandrescu пишет:
>>> Here's a baseline: http://goo.gl/91vIGc. Destroy!
>>>
>> Assertions to check encoding?!
>> I thought it would detect broken encoding and do a substitution at least.
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> That implementation does zero effort to optimize checks themselves, and
> indeed puts them in asserts. I think there's value in having such a
> primitive down below.

Just how much you are willing to assert? You don't even check length.
In short - what are the specs of this primitive and where you see it 
being used.

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> Andrei
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