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Re: [RFC][BZ #16009] Memory handling in strxfrm_l()
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- To: Leonhard Holz <leonhard dot holz at web dot de>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 10:40:51 -0800
- Subject: Re: [RFC][BZ #16009] Memory handling in strxfrm_l()
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On 11/24/2014 01:26 AM, Leonhard Holz wrote:
strxfrm is a function for pre-computing things that need to be fast
somewhere else
That may be true in theory, but in practice strxfrm is pretty much
useless everywhere. When I tried to use it in GNU sort, I gave up in
frustration, as strxfrm was soooo sllooooow that it was much better to
simply use strcoll and be smart about it. I don't know of any practical
application that uses glibc strxfrm in a real way, and my advice for
optimizating strxfrm is to not bother, and to focus one's efforts on
making strcoll go faster.
Unless perhaps you're thinking of rewriting strxfrm from scratch, in
which case we can talk about what's needed.