Re: Eureka! (was Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity)

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Feb 19 2004 - 20:20:25 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> The only way to avoid that is to make the hash weaker. Which I'm not
> willing to do: I'm not willing to make the _proper_ lookups go slower
> because of some insane crap generated by Microsoft.
>

Or, to be fair, have a secondary set of hash entries (effectively a
parallel dcache, which would optimize on normalized names instead of
true names.)

A multi-dcache approach seems scary as hell, though...

-hpa


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