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Null-Terminated StringsNull-Terminated StringsPosted Nov 19, 2010 11:24 UTC (Fri) by job (guest, #670)In reply to: Null-Terminated Strings by nix Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs
A modern string handling library would have to handle different character sets and different encondings as well, so there's already metadata to be stored with every string.
If memory efficiency is a problem for you, multibyte encodings is a much worse problem than storing string length. But UTF-8/16 is here to stay, there is simply no competition. I think we have to accept it.
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