Wide characters support in D

[Rainer Deyke]

On 6/8/2010 13:57, bearophile wrote:
> I hope we'll soon have computers with 200+ GB of RAM where using
> strings that use less than 32-bit chars is in most cases a premature
> optimization (like today is often a silly optimization to use arrays
> of 16-bit ints instead of 32-bit or 64-bit ints. Only special
> situations found with the profiler can justify the use of arrays of
> shorts in a low level language).

Off-topic, but I don't need a profiler to tell me that my 1024x1024x1024
arrays should use shorts instead of ints.  And even when 200GB becomes
common, I'd still rather not waste that memory by using twice as much
space as I have to just because I can.


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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com