Re: glib iconv caching

[mortenw gnome org]

I would guess that the reason caching was needed to begin with
was because of crazy code like (from g_utf8_collate)...

      gchar *str1_locale = g_convert (str1_norm, -1, charset, "UTF-8", NULL, NULL, NULL);
      gchar *str2_locale = g_convert (str2_norm, -1, charset, "UTF-8", NULL, NULL, NULL);

where "charset" is from g_get_charset, i.e., in practice it never
changes.

Just keeping a single iconv around here for this would do wonders
for efficiency.  (Similar code is found in g_utf8_collate_key.)

Morten