Re: -fshort-wchar option, wchar_t and Native<->Unicode conversion

Darin Fisher wrote:

> Yeah, I wrote that comment about mbrtowc/wcrtomb being faster, but I 
> don't have my testcases anymore.  I'm not sure how much faster it was... 
> it might be good to construct some new tests to verify that statement ;-)
> 

   Or, we may just take a short-cut by pinging Ulrich and Bruno? :-) 
They  must have a good perf. estimate for what they wrote. What do you 
think?


I've just taken a brief look at mbrtowc and wcrtomb implementation in 
glibc 2.3.2 and it seems like we wouldn't gain much  because both 
mbrtowc/wcrtomb and iconv rely on GCONV(glibc internal module for 
codeset conversion). Well, this is just from a cursory look so that it 
can be wrong.


Jungshik