Re: Buffer overflows

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 31, 2007, 10:06 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708311104200.28586@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <1188536430.29782.903.camel@hurina>

Hi,

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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> On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 21:09 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > So yes, I bet there are faster string libraries out there.
> 
> Oh, well that's easy to fix. But I don't think the speed matters much in 
> string manipulation, it's usually not done in performance critical 
> paths.

AFAIR one of the recent performance studies showed strlen() as one of the _biggest_ offenders. So no, your point has been disproven _already_.

I have to wonder, though, why you do not just go and enhance strbuf.[ch], which is nice and easy, and not the least unelegant.

Ciao, Dscho