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		jiggawatts 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Algorithms for Modern Processor Architectures Also: Java, DotNet, and Windows all use 2-byte char types.

looperhacks 7 months ago [–]

Akchyually! These days, Java uses Latin1 if no characters outside Latin1 are used. Only if full Unicode is necessary, it uses UTF-16

josephg 7 months ago | [–]

Apple does something similar for strings in objc and Swift. They do lots of other optimisations besides - like small string optimisation for short strings to avoid heap allocations.

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