On Monday 02 November 2015 17:49:09 Lauri Kasanen wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:39:55 +0100
>
> Tim Ruehsen <tim.ruehsen_at_gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi Lauri,
> >
> > your code wouldn't work with non-continuous character sets, like EBCDIC.
> >
> > Did you turn on optimization when compiling curl/libcurl ? Any half-way
> > modern compiler should translate the current code into a lookup table or
> > code like yours.
> >
> > Another option would be to check for a continuous character set within
> > configure.ac and provide two code paths.
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> All comparisons were made with -O3 -march=native. Does curl really
> support ebcdic? In 2015?

In fact, I don't know for sure. Also, I am not sure if EBCDIC is the only non-
continuous charset out there.
At least, someone put some time into the current code for a good reason.

>
> - Lauri
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