[PATCH] Speed up find_transition

[Ulrich Drepper]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> The following patch speeds up find_transition.

Applied.


> BTW, shouldn't we for the 64-bit tables generate transitions till more than
> 2037 for all locales that are still changing DST?  Or teach glibc tz reader
> to grok the POSIX tz string stored at the end of TZif2 files and handle
> timer >= transitions[num_transitions - 1] specially (guess the env string
> should be parsed just lazily, because people will rarely query years above
> last transition)?

I think we should start supporting the tz string at some point.  Blindly
extending the range of the table means lots of wasted disk space and CPU
cycles.

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

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