Re: invalidly encoded strings

On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 12:02:28AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> . what do we need to do to make the verification code more efficient? I
> think we need to address the correctness issue first, but doing so
> should certainly make us want to improve the verification code. For
> example, I'm wondering if it might benefit from having a tiny cache.

It has been pointed out the the verification for UTF-8 is very
inefficient, involving several function calls to first get the length,
then check characters, etc. It could be significantly improved. I don't
know whether a cache would make any useful difference.

Have a nice day,
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