[Bug 24198] The Encoding Standard should use bitwise operations instead of multiplication, division and exponentiation when natural

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24198

Martin Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Martin Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> ---
(In reply to Anne from comment #3)
> Henri, note that in particular encoders are very slow the way they are
> written now. Creating a dedicated lookup table would be much quicker. Do you
> think we should have that too?

I'm not Henri, but I don't think speed is important in the spec. But make it
clear to the reader that other ways of implementation giving the same result
may be (much) faster.

> (The Encoding standard actually does define left and right shifts, and
> logical OR and AND, and uses them. Just not for utf-8...)

Do you mean bit-wise OR and AND? If you actually have these operations
well-defined already, and if there are no issues along the lines of those
pointed out by John at #c2, then using these operations for UTF-8 would be the
way to go. I can't immagine not doing UTF-8 with these operations if available.

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