[lm-sensors] [RFC PATCH] lib/access.c optimization

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Mark,

> Before anyone spends too much time on that patch... why are there so many
> 'strcasecmp' calls in libsensors?  Did you know that you can specify 'in0'
> or 'IN0' in the config file and both have the same effect?  I never even
> realized it until yesterday night.  This case insensitivity is *nowhere*
> mentioned in the man pages.

I didn't know either.

> Can we get rid of that?  If so, I'm gonna shave a lot more than 8% by
> using a hash for all the string/name to chip/feature/ignore lookups.

Yeah, let's get rid of it, I really don't see the point.

How are you going to implement your hash? I'm curious?

> BTW: valgrind 3.2.0 (w/ callgrind) plus kcachegrind rocks.

Don't know about callgrind and kcachegrind, but yeah, valgrind
definitely rocks.

-- 
Jean Delvare