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Re: So where are the bottlenecks? (Audit for post Beta-6)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Wed Jun 5 16:51:58 1996

Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 16:50:43 -0400
To: Mark Eichin <eichin@MIT.EDU>
Cc: epeisach@MIT.EDU, krbdev@MIT.EDU, krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <xe1g28aqabi.fsf@maneki-neko.cygnus.com>
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@lehman.com>

On , 5-June-1996, "Mark Eichin" wrote to "epeisach@MIT.EDU, krbdev@MIT.EDU, krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU" saying:

> Just remember, *don't* use strftime -- it's totally broken on solaris.
> (Using autoconf to test for it won't help much - the breakage only
> shows up *during* DST...) But yes, most things using *printf can be
> rewritten for speed.

Really?  I thought some of the code did use that.
I know that strptime under SunOS is broken, and the autoconf tests cause
that path to be compiled (I hacked my config.cache to avoid it here at
Lehman).  I ought to have written a bug report and/or fixed the
underlying bug, but you only just reminded me about it...

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