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2.3 plans


Jakub's latest gcc 3.1 patch looked quite reasonable.  I made a few
comments and once these things are resolved I'll apply it.

This means that the branch point for 2.3 is near (well, the 2.2-stable
branch is created).  Time to post the to-do list for 2.3.  I'd like to
have a quick cycle to get the functionality out there as uick as
possible (especially the locale-model stuff).  A second reason is that
I still hope to get the thread-library rewritten but this won't happen
in 2.3.  So we don't have to wait for this but should also not have
2.4 delayed for long just because 2.3 was just released.

Anyway, I've mentioned on several occasions that I have a to-do list
myself.  I include it hear.  So far these items are assigned to me.
If somebody wants to take over the one or other thing let me know.
Only Wolfram already has an item on his list since he agreed to it a
long time ago.

Anyway, please send me ASAP the additional items you expect on the
list so that we can make final plans.

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me:

- new locale model

- implement transliteration inside localedef

- update to new ISO 14651 table with needed localedef changes; this is again
  a lot of work

- implement read-only mmap() support for streams; read-only streams should
  under certain circumstances simply use one mmap() call and set the
  buffer pointers appropriately

- further reduce startup costs
  + 11 locale files!
  + get rid of __libc_subinit
  + avoid PLT entries by using internal symbol
  + eventually move all ld.so variables in one structure

- add object file reordering; I have a beginning for this but it's not yet
  sophisticated enough

- getifaddrs (http://veltec.co.jp/jman/cat/freeifaddrs.html)

- regex speed patch; I have the patches in my inbox

- add additional level of testing (root-only, alias, namespace, ...)

- eventually implement one or two of the proposed nscd improvements

- correctly implement filter DSOs; implement DSO groups


Wolfram:

- new malloc
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