Re: using ASCII names to avoid overhead

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 13/11/16 14:14, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> 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.
>
> V2 attached also updates sc_check-AUTHORS
> as otherwise it would now have been skipped all the time.

Looks fine. Thanks.