24 Apr
2008
24 Apr
'08
5:47 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:39:40PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
Hrm. This is interesting: http://lwn.net/Articles/278961/ I wonder if Wine could run faster if it could delegate the case-insensitvity to the filesystem...
Would be nice indeed, but I don't think it will come: Linus shot down similar patches in the past because to_lower may be easy to implement for ascii, but once you want to implement it for all charsets supported by the files system it gets very messy.
Ciao Joerg
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Joerg Mayer jmayer@loplof.de
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.