[PATCH libxkbcommon 1/2] makekeys: replace helper with python script and binary search

[David Herrmann]

Hi Ran

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Ran Benita <ran234 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 04:05:33PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
>> From: Ran Benita <ran234 at gmail.com>
>>
>> This removes the complicated and undocumented hash-table creation-helper
>> and replaces it with an autogenerated sorted array. The search uses simple
>> bsearch() now.
>>
>> We also tried using gperf but it turned out to generate way to big
>> hashtables and when reducing the size it isn't really faster than
>> bsearch() anymore.
>>
>> There are no users complaining about the speed of keysym lookups and we
>> have no benchmarks that tell that we are horribly slow. Hence, we can
>> safely use the simpler approach and drop all that old code.
>
> I took the patches to my tree, with a couple of small non-functional
> changes. It should appear in master in some time, unless Daniel has a
> problem with breaking this particular API now. Though for me it seems
> like a good time to drop all of our compat shims before releasing, as
> the toolkits need to be updated for Wayland anyway.
>
> This turned out nicely, thanks again.
> Ran

"...and test a couple 'thorny' cases..."
haha, hilarious :)

Thanks for picking it up. Daniel already mentioned that he is ok with
the API-break so I think he will pull it right away from your tree.
Regards
David