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Re:Small Strings in Rust: smolstr vs. smartstring by hvenev on Sunday August 25, 2024 @03:43AM (#41345288)
Is 26 characters next? I think the number of bytestrings of length <= 26 that are also valid UTF-8 is only 0.021 * 256^24.
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Re:Small Strings in Rust: smolstr vs. smartstring by returningfory2 on Sunday August 25, 2024 @05:35AM (#41345912)
I think the problem you encounter with this is that you can no longer reference the small string as a &str.
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