Re: glib iconv caching

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 17:05 -0400, mortenw gnome org wrote:
> 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.)
> 

Thanks for pointing that out. If you have a chance, I would still be
interested in answers to the two questions in my previous mail.

Matthias