Re: std C++ [was: [Patch] Psiconv TextEd and Word importer]


Subject: Re: std C++ [was: [Patch] Psiconv TextEd and Word importer]
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 12:19:27 CST


On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Mike Nordell wrote:
>
> Mike, I think all this is useless. All reasonable OSes load pages of the
> libraries only when they are needed from disk. So, if user doesn't use BIG5
> encoding, the pages with these tables won't be loaded into RAM at all (if they
> are read-only). And I have an impression that libiconv could be configured to
> not support some particluar encodings at compile time. Currently non-latin1
> chars are only supported on Unix, so all other platforms may omit support for
> all but 2 charset (iso-8859-1 and cp1252) from libiconv (or at least omit all
> CJK encodings since they take 90% of the libiconv's size).
>

All reasonable OSes that aren't real-time =;-)

Thomas



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