I read it, and it provides no value at all. Nobody else should read it again.
We live in a better world now. The problems that the original GD's author was facing are no longer.
For the 4th paragraph about performance, I don't totally agree. (e.g., Temporally converting string to UTF-32 will involves at least one converting + allocation + copying, there could be no performance gains depending on situations.)
I read it, and it provides no value at all. Nobody else should read it again.
We live in a better world now. The problems that the original GD's author was facing are no longer.
For the 4th paragraph about performance, I don't totally agree. (e.g., Temporally converting string to UTF-32 will involves at least one converting + allocation + copying, there could be no performance gains depending on situations.)