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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:26:50 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: tiny /etc/passwd parsing optimization
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On Feb  3 13:10, Václav Zeman wrote:
> Hi.
> I was looking into how to speed up /etc/passwd parsing. Here is a
> trivial patch that improves pwdgrp::parse_passwd() by a tiny bit.
> Similar change can be applied to pwdgrp::parse_group() as well. The
> resulting assembler shows that it avoids recomputing the pointers into
> the array.

Cool, I applied the patch.


Thanks,
Corinna

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