Re: Faster UTF-8 decoding in GLib

[Daniel Elstner <daniel kitta googlemail com>]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 16.03.2010, 13:01 -0400 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod:
> > 
> > I've made a glib branch where I tried to optimize the UTF-8 decoding routines:
> > http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/zabaluev/glib.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/fast-utf8
> 
> Before any changes are made, can you provide real-world performance profiles
> suggesting that UTF-8 decoding is taking a noticeable time of any particular
> real-world use case?  If no, I don't see the point.

Well, I would see a point since UTF-8 decoding is a fairly generic
operation.  It cannot hurt to be as fast as possible at this task.
Assuming, of course, that the optimization does not introduce other
costs elsewhere, which I think the proposal unfortunately does.

--Daniel