Re: using ASCII names to avoid overhead

[Pádraig Brady]

On 13/11/16 12:42, Torbjörn Granlund wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   I was just looking at the overhead of proper_name_utf8() vs proper_name()
>   in coreutils, and noticed that using the former adds about 18K to each 
> program.
>   For example truncate(1) is 62K with and 44K without.
>   I'm going to simplify usages for my name at least.
>   I don't care and anyway no one can pronounce it no matter which form is 
> used :)
>   I was wondering if you preferred to keep utf8 usage for your names?
>   These names are seen in `cat --version` output etc.
>   
> I don't care about Torbjörn vs Torbjorn.  (Actually, I think it's not
> necessary to plug authors' names at all from the binaries.)

Cool thanks.
I'll push the attached later,
which reduces a standard coreutils install by about 160KB.

Pádraig

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