[llvm-dev] UTF-8 conversion speed

[Chandler Carruth via llvm-dev]

Just as an FYI, I'm relaying questions to the Foundation's lawyer and will
report back if there is anything we need to do here.

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 9:03 AM David Blaikie via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Probably best to leave the license lawyering to lawyers & not public
> mailing lists.
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 3:55 AM Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 09:14:30AM +0100, Stephen Kelly via llvm-dev
>> wrote:
>> > On 02/10/18 22:58, Friedman, Eli via llvm-dev wrote:
>> > > On 10/2/2018 2:27 PM, via llvm-dev wrote:
>> > > > At CPPcon last week, I saw a talk by Bob Steagall called
>> > > > "Fast Conversion From UTF-8 with C++, DFAs, and SSE Intrinsics."
>> > > > Part of this talk included data from a half-dozen or so conversion
>> > > > libraries... one of which was labeled "LLVM".
>> > > >
>> > > > The LLVM converters were invariably the slowest.
>> > >
>> > > UTF conversion is not on any hot paths, as far as I know, so nobody
>> has
>> > > spent any time optimizing it.  If you're interested in the history of
>> > > the LLVM code, see https://reviews.llvm.org/rC68208 ; it's mostly
>> > > untouched since then, except for a few bugfixes.
>> >
>> > Given
>> >
>> >  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823100
>> >
>> >  https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32962
>> >
>> > I think moving away from it should be encouraged, assuming use of that
>> file
>> > can be removed.
>>
>> That bug is clearly bogus. Whether the copyright indication is correct
>> is a separate question, but the claim of the PR is just wrong.
>>
>> Joerg
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