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Re: Compile performance of Linux kernels in mainline gcc

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 04:24:55PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
> 
> > Quotes? You mean >>"<< ?  That is 7 bit ASCII too.
> 
> The world has moved on.  Not every quote character is an ASCII quote
> character.  You requested UTF-8, you get it.

And what advantage does it have to use such a weird quoting character? 
Is there anything wrong with the good old ASCII " ? 

For me this sounds just like a totally unnecessary gratuious incompatibility.

-Andi
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