Subj : Re: global hash table
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Thu Feb 19 2004 12:30 am

Brendan Eich wrote:

> 2.  deflated_string_cache came in when the very early (1996) 
> SpiderMonkey codebase was extended to do Unicode 2 from ISO-Latin-1.


Er, make that 1997, if memory serves.  SpiderMonkey was coded in 1996.  
The Unicode work was done for Nav4 during 1997, some time after API 
consumers had started using JS_GetStringBytes, often from places where 
no cx param was passed.  API compatibility ruled.

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