Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/26/2013 4:31 AM, Joakim wrote:
> My single-byte encoding has none of these problems, in fact, it's much faster
> and uses less memory for the same function, while providing additional speedups,
> from the header, that are not available to UTF-8.

C'mon, Joakim, show us this amazing strstr() implementation for your scheme!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690