Re: [bug-gperf] Add machine-readable output to gperf

[Bruno Haible]

Sei Lisa wrote:
> I thought that the lack of an easily machine-readable output mode could be
> an obstacle for more people than just me.

No, You are the first one requesting this in 19 years. The reasons are:
  * gperf is the tool that people use to get a maximally optimized and
    fast code for hash lookups. If afterwards you lose a factor of 2 by
    interpreting the results, it makes no sense to use gperf.
  * Most newer programming languages have hash tables already built-in
    in their standard library.

> I'm unlikely to benefit from a feature like this one for several years
> (until distributions catch up, of which mine, Debian, is notably slow).
> I have already solved it for my purposes:

Writing to the mailing list was the right thing to do, nevertheless.

> I can provide a patch myself, if that would help in any way to get this
> feature implemented.

Thank you, but no, I don't think this feature would be a useful one,
for the reasons stated above.

Bruno