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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:00:04 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban@...n.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] towupper/towlower: Update to Unicode 9.0
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:05:19PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> > Wait a bit with that. I think I found some more Unicode 9.0 issues with
> the tables,
> > and I’ve found a huge performance opportunity by sorting the 3 tables
> (mostly pairs),
> > and break the loops earlier.
> > This should come close to glibc table performance then, without the huge
> memory costs they have.
> >
> > I’ll write a perl regression testing script not to miss any more
> mappings, and maybe
> > improve the current musl logic. This will need 1-2 days.
> > I’ll also use it for cperl then.
>
> Thanks for the update. I still need to publish the table generation
> code for all the other tables -- I got it mostly dug up and cleaned up
> but got interrupted last time so it's still not posted. With that it
> will be possible to update other things too, not just case mappings.
>
> A few of the existing tables are using an older version of the
> tabulation code that formats the big arrays differently, so I'll
> probably first make a commit to reformat them, so that it's possible
> to mechanically check that this commit does not change the generated
> .o files, then use the uniform formatting as the basis the subsequent
> update to Unicode 9.0. That should not affect the case mapping file
> though since it's not machine-generated.
>
I haven't yet seen your table generator, so I updated the tables with my
version, as I
use them in safeclib.
Unicode 10.0 support plus sort tables for double search speed.
I also added a harmless patch to a check-syntax target for emacs flymake
support.
-- Reini
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