Bruce Korb wrote: > Attached are several files, one the patch, another a derived file based on > a file that is part of the patch, and the last is the tool used to derive > the header from the mapping file. > > I've had this toy kicking around for a decade or so. If it were > part of some project, it might be libiberty or maybe gnulib or > maybe coreutils. Uncertain what to do with it, I've kept it > basically hidden. The idea is to specify character classes for > a particular program or group of programs and emit the classification > table. Zack did it for GCC. There are some ad-hoc methods in the > core utils, including fmt. I chose fmt as the example because it > was especially trivial and would still demonstrate it. > > So it's all attached for your amusement. Probably needs a better name.
I suppose the motivation is performance? If so, have you measured the improvement?
