GNU bug report logs - #58168
string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies

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Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:25:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 58168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58168: string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 14:44:45 +0200

14 okt. 2022 kl. 17.31 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:

> I fail to see how the number of times we'd traverse the strings is of
> concern, as long as it's fast enough.

Unfortunately it isn't. Always reading the whole string wouldn't give us decent string comparison performance. (Doing it twice doesn't help.)

If the current code turns out to not to be fast enough then other well-known techniques can be applied, but I'm done for now.
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