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Re:Rust Performance Pitfalls by burntsushi on Thursday June 08, 2017 @01:57PM (#14515848)
Most of the Rust programs I write are compute bound, and finding ways to avoid the separate UTF-8 validation step are critical to their performance.
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Re:Rust Performance Pitfalls by Animats on Thursday June 08, 2017 @02:14PM (#14515958)
That's because you write string search programs. Do those even need to run in UTF-8 space, as opposed to pure byte strings?
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