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What's the point of benchmarking code you can't use?
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Re^5: Interleaving bytes in a string quickly
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 26, 2010 at 20:23 UTC

    I could use it. I know the data I'd be passing are byte strings. Nothing else makes sense given the purpose of the code.

    But I know I'm not going to use it, so I don't waste time perfecting code that I'm not going to use for all possible scenarios. It'd be like ironing my old newspapers before discarding them :)

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      I could use it. I know the data I'd be passing are byte strings.

      That only excuses the first of the three. Mind you, the third could be documented as a known limitation, but it's probably free to handle.

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        Okay. How could it "silently encode my bytes as utf"?

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