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Re: Contributing to glibc
- From: Rogelio Serrano <rogelio dot serrano at gmail dot com>
- To: Bogdan Blidarescu <bogdan dot blidarescu at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Mihai Sarbulescu <mihai dot sarbulescu at gmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:20:29 +0000
- Subject: Re: Contributing to glibc
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On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Bogdan Blidarescu
<bogdan.blidarescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We would like to contribute to the glibc library. Looking at the
> PROJECTS file, this sounds interesting:
>
>
>> [ 8] If you enjoy assembler programming (as I do --drepper :-) you might
>> be interested in writing optimized versions for some functions.
>> Especially the string handling functions can be optimized a lot.
>> Take a look at
>> Faster String Functions
>> Henry Spencer, University of Toronto
>> Usenix Winter '92, pp. 419--428
Where can we find examples of the techniques described in the paper
above? I can not find a copy anywhere and I would like to study and
implement them.
<snipped...>
Thanks!