I know.
But doing it with a byte to store the length of the length, means you can have any strings up to 4,294,967,295 characters long (as you can now), yet MOST strings will only take up 2 bytes for the "header" rather than always using 4 as they do now.
Seems a more logical way to do it to me...
But doing it with a byte to store the length of the length, means you can have any strings up to 4,294,967,295 characters long (as you can now), yet MOST strings will only take up 2 bytes for the "header" rather than always using 4 as they do now.
Seems a more logical way to do it to me...