Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: Perl programmer wanted to fix "xsrc" problem
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/08/2003 20:50:45
On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 11:59  PM, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 03:50:03PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>>> I'm therefor searching for a volunteer to rewite the Perl script
>>> "xfree/xc/fonts/util/ucs2any.pl" into a C program.
>> How about sh/awk/sed?
>
> Rewriting it as a shell script would probably cause a performance 
> degradation.

Uh, but it's only used as a host tool, right?  So what if it takes a 
little longer to run...

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>