From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-core@...>
Date: 2005-07-04T08:11:32+09:00
Subject: Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String

Eric Mahurin wrote:

> The main difference I saw was that a character would be
> represented as String rather than a Fixnum.  I'd rather see it
> remain an Integer to handle the unicode encodings - Fixnum when
> that is enough and Bignum where needed.  That would give better
> compatibility.  And efficiency when dealing with encodings that
> fit in a Fixnum.

Eh, it's hardly a problem of having something to store Unicode
codepoints in.  A Unicode codepoint fits in 21 bits,
        nikolai

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