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Re: svn commit: r1042294 - /subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/checksum.c

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:42:29 +0100

On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 09:16:53AM -0000, peters_at_apache.org wrote:
> Author: peters
> Date: Sun Dec 5 09:15:42 2010
> New Revision: 1042294
>
> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1042294&view=rev
> Log:
> Optimize and simplify svn_checksum_parse_hex(). In my tests, the new
> version is 20% to 30% faster. The EBCDIC port would probably need an
> #ifdef here.
>
> Also happens to fix the case of input with uppercase A-F characters.
> We neither parsed them correctly nor rejected them as invalid.
> Now we accept _and_ parse them correctly.
>
> * subversion/libsvn_subr/checksum.c
> (svn_checksum_parse_hex): Rewrite to do a single table lookup to find
> the validity and value of a hex byte, rather than two lookups
> (svn_ctype_isxdigit, svn_ctype_isalpha) plus some ASCII math.
> Also, don't bother to qualify char as unsigned except where actually
> needed, and rename is_zeros to is_nonzero to match its meaning.
>
> Modified:
> subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/checksum.c
 
> - is_zeros |= (*checksum)->digest[i];
> + is_nonzero |= ((char *)(*checksum)->digest)[i] = x1 << 4 | x2;

At the very least, this needs parenthesis unless you want everyone
to pull out their copy of K&R to check operator precedence rules.

Can we do one assignment per line instead? Maybe that's easier to parse.

Stefan
Received on 2010-12-05 11:43:10 CET

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