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Per Bothner <per@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Michael Sperber wrote: > * Performace: Using streams is expensive - at the very least it puts > a lot of pressure on the garbage collector. A program that uses > imperative ports should not have to use streams just because it > wants to use a non-utf-8 encoding. I actually suspect that transcoding from arbitrary lookahead offset the GC cost on systems with good GCs. > * Complexity: Having to deal with a very different abstraction > just because I want to use a non-utf-8 encoding complicates my > program and my mental model. > * Switching encodings: You can't switch encodings without switching > ports. Fair enough. I had trouble figuring it out how to make it work, which is one reason why I punted on it. (It's trickier than what you suggest.) But I believe I've found a way to do it, which I hope I can incorporate in the next revision. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla