Re: [Pharo-project] How important is ANSI Smalltalk / speeding up ASCII/Latin1/Unicode I/O

Dave Mason wrote:

I have been wondering about ways to speed up character-set conversions, and related I/O as mentioned in the recent email about MultiByteFileStream. However this change might break parts of the ANSI Smalltalk hierarchy - particularly around String.

Important for Seaside, we use the utf8 fastpath by Andreas instead of Utf8TextConverter for this reason.

So my question is, how important is ANSI compatibility? Squeak? GNU Smalltalk? VW? VA?

What do you have in mind? In general ANSI compatibility is important for Seaside. Cheers Philippe