Re: RFC: Constant Database Support

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Mar 19, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 05:04:17PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>> Remaining requestion is what to do with old statically linked binaries.
>> I'm not too found of keeping the legacy support in services_mkdb and the
>> old files remain valid. Comments?
> 
> Third iteration. services_mkdb(8) has a new argument to decide what
> output format to create, defaulting to cdb. Use the fast_divide32,
> dropping lookup performance for getservbyport(3) by 10% on my Core2.
> 
> Patch can be found at http://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/cdb+services.diff
> 
> Numbers have been posted yesterday for lookup performance. Any other
> concerns that have not been addressed?

Any reason you didn't consider implementing CBR as a backend for the db in 
libc?