Re: string_char_to_byte and string_byte_to_char micro-optimisation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:53:50 -0700
> 
> On 6/14/19 5:37 AM, Robert Pluim wrote:
> > What I donʼt have is any intuition on whether such a change actually
> > makes any difference in real-world Emacs usage. Can anyone suggest any
> > benchmarks?
> 
> My usual benchmark for this sort of thing is 'make compile-always' in 
> the lisp directory.

I don't think that will do for this case.  Strings are used rather
rarely in Emacs.  We need to find a command that uses strings
extensively, and uses non-ASCII text in strings in particular.  Some
JSON processing with non-ASCII strings inside, perhaps?