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author | Jari Vetoniemi <jari.vetoniemi@indooratlas.com> | 2020-04-04 23:59:51 +0900 |
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committer | Jari Vetoniemi <jari.vetoniemi@indooratlas.com> | 2020-04-04 23:59:51 +0900 |
commit | 7311a3ea25980c98307156bb16cf9a31b9228473 (patch) | |
tree | d36d9974af4ce083fa4dece5bdcb3eea7883190e /jni/iconv/DESIGN | |
parent | 08b3c31dd0d0b12d63673691da72a40ae108a0d9 (diff) |
mkxp fixes
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diff --git a/jni/iconv/DESIGN b/jni/iconv/DESIGN deleted file mode 100644 index 9ff2ad3..0000000 --- a/jni/iconv/DESIGN +++ /dev/null @@ -1,64 +0,0 @@ -While some other iconv(3) implementations - like FreeBSD iconv(3) - choose -the "many small shared libraries" and dlopen(3) approach, this implementation -packs everything into a single shared library. Here is a comparison of the -two designs. - -* Run-time efficiency - 1. A dlopen() based approach needs a cache of loaded shared libraries. - Otherwise, every iconv_open() call will result in a call to dlopen() - and thus to file system related system calls - which is prohibitive - because some applications use the iconv_open/iconv/iconv_close sequence - for every single filename, string, or piece of text. - 2. In terms of virtual memory use, both approaches are on par. Being shared - libraries, the tables are shared between any processes that use them. - And because of the demand loading used by Unix systems (and because libiconv - does not have initialization functions), only those parts of the tables - which are needed (typically very few kilobytes) will be read from disk and - paged into main memory. - 3. Even with a cache of loaded shared libraries, the dlopen() based approach - makes more system calls, because it has to load one or two shared libraries - for every encoding in use. - -* Total size - In the dlopen(3) approach, every shared library has a symbol table and - relocation offset. All together, FreeBSD iconv installs more than 200 shared - libraries with a total size of 2.3 MB. Whereas libiconv installs 0.45 MB. - -* Extensibility - The dlopen(3) approach is good for guaranteeing extensibility if the iconv - implementation is distributed without source. (Or when, as in glibc, you - cannot rebuild iconv without rebuilding your libc, thus possibly - destabilizing your system.) - The libiconv package achieves extensibility through the LGPL license: - Every user has access to the source of the package and can extend and - replace just libiconv.so. - The places which have to be modified when a new encoding is added are as - follows: add an #include statement in iconv.c, add an entry in the table in - iconv.c, and of course, update the README and iconv_open.3 manual page. - -* Use within other packages - If you want to incorporate an iconv implementation into another package - (such as a mail user agent or web browser), the single library approach - is easier, because: - 1. In the shared library approach you have to provide the right directory - prefix which will be used at run time. - 2. Incorporating iconv as a static library into the executable is easy - - it won't need dynamic loading. (This assumes that your package is under - the LGPL or GPL license.) - - -All conversions go through Unicode. This is possible because most of the -world's characters have already been allocated in the Unicode standard. -Therefore we have for each encoding two functions: -- For conversion from the encoding to Unicode, a function called xxx_mbtowc. -- For conversion from Unicode to the encoding, a function called xxx_wctomb, - and for stateful encodings, a function called xxx_reset which returns to - the initial shift state. - - -All our functions operate on a single Unicode character at a time. This is -obviously less efficient than operating on an entire buffer of characters at -a time, but it makes the coding considerably easier and less bug-prone. Those -who wish best performance should install the Real Thing (TM): GNU libc 2.1 -or newer. - |