Re: nbi : what kind of support do you wish ?

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Thierry Laronde <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: nbi : what kind of support do you wish ?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:12:07 +0100

> slightly modified strcmp source taken from GNU libc. There are some
> optimizations in the code that are a benefit for GRUB, and glibc is meant to
> build on different architectures, so it's also a good way to take care of
> possible extensions to something else than x86.

While GRUB is implemented as small as possible, glibc is implemented
as fast as possible. For GRUB, the speed is not important, so there
would be no gain by including glibc string functions.

Okuji