Re: [Gcl-devel] utf8 and emacs text/string multibyte representation

[Sam Steingold]

> * Camm Maguire <address@hidden> [2014-10-30 10:16:15 -0400]:
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> Do these other lisps allocate a fresh character on each aref?

Of course not!
A character is an immediate object, a word.
Even a 32-bit system has words big enough to store all Unicode.

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