On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 05:08:12PM -0700, SourceForge.net wrote:

In response to speed concerns raised in an IRC conversation ("well, its a realtime engine that communicates thru the utf8 stuff, so its good to have it efficient"), I have prepared a benchmark program to test the performance of u8_offset(). It reads a file into RAM, then traverses it with u8_offset() a user-specified number of iterations.

Gah, stupid SourceForge patch tracker rewrap of my carefully formatted comment. :(

Fine, SourceForge -- I'll wrap at 72 characters next time.

Marvin Humphrey