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		hvenev on Aug 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Small Strings in Rust: smolstr vs. smartstring (20... Is 26 characters next? I think the number of bytestrings of length <= 26 that are also valid UTF-8 is only 0.021 * 256^24.

returningfory2 on Aug 25, 2024 [–]

I think the problem you encounter with this is that you can no longer reference the small string as a &str.

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