Re: [xml] Better hash function for dict.c

[Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml behnel de>]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:05:03AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Since you seems to be interested in the performances of the hash 
> > algorithm, I tried to drop the string comparisons on lookup when possible
> > I have an old patch for this which I'm enclosing, but I never applied it
> > since I had problems at the time (can't remember why/where, it's just 
> > a FYI patch ;-)

only 6 out of 17 hunks of this patch apply against 2.6.32. Also, it does not
seem to know about the GCC optimisation that uses memcmp() instead.

A bit of work to get that working again ...

Stefan