| Ticket UUID: | 31d1e19cd93a9f6044a1125fb1e1f080db5bf21b | |||
| Title: | Support for tagged pointer strings | |||
| Status: | Fixed | Type: | Feature Request | |
| Severity: | Important | Priority: | Medium | |
| Subsystem: | Resolution: | Fixed | ||
| Last Modified: | 2024-08-25 00:53:45 | |||
| Version Found In: | Milestone: | 1.2 | ||
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js added on 2020-09-29 22:04:46:
While support for tagged pointers was merged in b4039f9a85, they are only being used by OFNumber and OFDate right now. It would be nice to also use them for short OFStrings. This requires a new OFString subclass. Since most short strings will be ASCII, tagged pointer strings can be limited to ASCII strings, requiring only 7 bit per character. This would allow storing up to 8 characters in a tagged pointer on 64 bit systems (even when increasing the tag size to a full 8 bits) and up to 4 characters on 32 bit systems (but the tag size needs to stay at the current 4 bits). js added on 2024-08-25 00:53:45: Implemented in 8ca952eaa4. | ||||