small presentation about gnulib

2010-07-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi all, At the GNU Hacker's Meeting in Den Haag [1], a "lightning talk" (5 minute presentation) was presented, about how to contribute to gnulib. Find the slides attached. Andy Wingo, who organized the conference, will soon put all slide decks (and the recordings, IIUC) online at [1]. Bruno [1

Re: mbspcasecmp comment bug

2010-07-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, > I just noticed that the comments for mbspcasecmp are wrong: > > /* Compare the initial segment of the character string STRING consisting of > at most mbslen (PREFIX) characters with the character string PREFIX, > ignoring case, returning less than, equal to or greater than zero

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Speed up uNN_chr and uNN_strchr with Boyer-Moore algorithm

2010-07-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 07/27/2010 06:28 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 27/07/10 19:14, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 07/27/2010 06:06 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: I would suggest a new function due to the way I see this function called most often. I.E. repeatedly with the same character. Is this really a bottleneck? i.e.,

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Speed up uNN_chr and uNN_strchr with Boyer-Moore algorithm

2010-07-27 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 27/07/10 19:14, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 07/27/2010 06:06 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> >> I would suggest a new function due to the >> way I see this function called most often. >> I.E. repeatedly with the same character. > > Is this really a bottleneck? i.e., what does u8_uctomb_aux look like

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Speed up uNN_chr and uNN_strchr with Boyer-Moore algorithm

2010-07-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 07/27/2010 06:06 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 23/07/10 13:03, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 07/23/2010 09:21 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: Otherwise fine, please commit. I can add comments that prove the validity of the code later, after you committed it. v2 already had large comments that detail the a

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Speed up uNN_chr and uNN_strchr with Boyer-Moore algorithm

2010-07-27 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 23/07/10 13:03, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 07/23/2010 09:21 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: >> Otherwise fine, please commit. I can add comments that prove the >> validity of >> the code later, after you committed it. > > v2 already had large comments that detail the algorithm used and do > include all

Re: stat-time -> LGPLv3+

2010-07-27 Thread James Youngman
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > [Adding James to the CC] > >> > We’d like to use ‘stat-time’ in libguile, but libguile is LGPLv3+. >> > Could you make the license change? >> >> Or LGPL v2.1+ too. >> >> Anyway, CCed the other contributors (Bruno and Eric). > > According to '