Add 'UTF8Array' to the standard library #1062
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UTF8Array
is designed to be the internal representation ofString
. Implementation details are documented in the sources. The purpose of the inline and unowned storage representations is to have a way to for the compiler to generate static instances ofString
eventually.The proposed implementation doesn't support mutable operations yet (e.g., appending). My goal is to extend this type so that it can be used as a drop-in replacement for
Array<Int8>
.