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Re: AC_FUNC_MEMMEM


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: AC_FUNC_MEMMEM
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:51:37 -0700
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According to Peter Miller on 1/5/2008 7:02 PM:
| On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 20:27 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
|> Please note that even glibc 2.6.1 provides an implementation of memmem
|> that scales quadratically in the worst case, unlike the gnulib version.
|
| Are you saying glibc is better than gnulib, or vice versa?

glibc 2.6.1 is quadratic, gnulib is linear.  For worst-case scenarios,
gnulib's implementation is hands-down better, although the hope is that
future glibc releases will eventually import the gnulib implementation..

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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