locale_t aware gettext() functions

[Ulrich Drepper]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Is this faster? Four calls to __libc_tsd_set, just for nothing?

That's where you are wrong.  __libc_tsd_sed is no function call.  It's a
simple variable access.


> By the way, if uselocale() is really so cheap, why does libc have so many
> *_l functions already?

Some for historical reasons, a few for libstdc++.

-- 
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖

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