This used to be a minor optimization on ix86 where registers are scarce
and the calling convention not very efficient, but this platform is not
relevant enough anymore to warrant all this dirt in the code for the sake
of saving 1 or 2% of performance. Modern platforms don't use this at all
since their calling convention already defaults to using several registers
so better get rid of this once for all.
(from ebtree 6.0.6)
This version is mainly aimed at clarifying the fact that the ebtree license
is LGPL. Some files used to indicate LGPL and other ones GPL, while the goal
clearly is to have it LGPL. A LICENSE file has also been added.
No code is affected, but it's better to have the local tree in sync anyway.
(cherry picked from commit 24dc7cca051f081600fe8232f33e55ed30e88425)
This version adds support for prefix-based matching of memory blocks,
as well as some code-size and performance improvements on the generic
code. It provides a prefix insertion and longest match which are
compatible with the rest of the common features (walk, duplicates,
delete, ...). This is typically used for network address matching. The
longest-match code is a bit slower than the original memory block
handling code, so they have not been merged together into generic
code. Still it's possible to perform about 10 million networks lookups
per second in a set of 50000, so this should be enough for most usages.
This version also fixes some bugs in parts that were not used, so there
is no need to backport them.
We needed to upgrade ebtree to v5.0 to support string indexing,
and it was getting very painful to have it split across 2 dirs
and to have to patch it. Now we just have to copy the .c and .h
files to the right place.
Willy Tarreau