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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: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:23:13 +0000
- Subject: Re: Contributing to glibc
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Bogdan Blidarescu
<bogdan.blidarescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is what I have found so far:
>
> http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4421/Henry-Spencer-s-Regexp-Engine-Revisited
>
> ftp://ftp.freefriends.org/arnold/Awkstuff/
>
> Cheers!
>
Thanks Bogdan!
I also did look at the glibc string function sources but its going to
take a bit of reading assembler and disassembling test programs to
understand how they work and why they are fast, or not.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Rogelio Serrano
> <rogelio.serrano@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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!
>
>