Re: using ASCII names to avoid overhead

[Pádraig Brady]

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.

less_proper_name_utf8.patch
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