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Re: Thoughts on bug 15884
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Leonhard Holz <leonhard dot holz at web dot de>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 09:25:37 -0400
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on bug 15884
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On 09/16/2014 08:59 AM, Leonhard Holz wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> thanks for the suggestions. Attached is a first attempt for a
> microbenchmark. It simply sorts words from a text file via strcoll.
> It's not adapted to the glibc build environment (yet).
>
> As input I have choosen "lorem ipsum" texts since they mirror normal
> language and can be generated in many charsets / languages. See
> http://generator.lorem-ipsum.info.
>
> Maybe there are other use case ideas or input sources? And should I
> vary the collation? Actually C.UTF-8 is choosen.
This is looking like a good start. I do think you should vary
the collation since that's important too, particularly for
sorting.
As you work on this you will need to make your way through the
contribution checklist here:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist
The most complicated part is copyright assignment. For all code
contributed to glibc, the Free Software Foundation requires
copyright assignment.
My suggestion to anyone wishing to contribute over the long term
is a "request-assign.future" assignment:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/doc/Copyright/request-assign.future
Which indicates you desire to assign future contributes to glibc
to the FSF.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask, and
feel free to email me privately.
Cheers,
Carlos.