I just filled feedback case 38843 asking for speedup on REALGetTextData.
I think it’s slow here.
Especially I would like to have something to learn what encoding it has internally and get a pointer to it.
This way I could process data faster.
Or did I miss a trick here?
I would imagine the whole point of it is that the internal structure is atomic black box capsule, like on MacOS X its most likely NSString or CFString.
And usually if you need to work with it in raw format then you need it in specific encoding anyhow, since if you needed just something to store reference to it then you might as well just store the reference to the Text object.
I guess though as dictionary key for example then the options are going to be not so good.