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		ori_b 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UTF-8 is a brilliant design You don't particularly want indexing for that, but cursors. A byte offset (wrapped in an opaque type) is sufficient for that need.

bjoli 3 months ago [–]

You could add a LUT for decently fast indexing as well. I believe Java does that.

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