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		ceronman on July 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slimmer and faster JavaScript strings in Firefox Note that you don't necessarily use less memory using UTF-8. It only saves memory for languages that can be represented in latin1. Non-western languages usually end up using more memory in UTF-8 than in UTF-16.

lukasm on July 22, 2014 [–]

Of course that's why I said on average, which is mathematically correct, gut gives the sense.

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