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  • Hash : 02b9cabf
    Author : Ran Benita
    Date : 2021-03-29T16:05:14

    compose: use a ternary tree instead of a regular trie
    
    Previously we used a simple trie with a linked list for each chain.
    Unfortunately most compose files have very long chains which means the
    constructions performs an almost quadratic number of comparisons.
    
    Switch to using a ternary search tree instead. This is very similar to a
    trie, only the linked list is essentially replaced with a binary tree.
    
    On the en_US/Compose file, the perf diff is the following (the modified
    function is `parse`):
    
      Event 'cycles:u'
    
      Baseline  Delta Abs  Shared Object     Symbol
      ........  .........  ................  .................................
    
        39.91%    -17.62%  bench-compose     [.] parse.constprop.0
        20.54%     +6.47%  bench-compose     [.] lex
        17.28%     +5.55%  libc-2.33.so      [.] __strcmp_avx2
        12.78%     +4.01%  bench-compose     [.] xkb_keysym_from_name
         2.30%     +0.83%  libc-2.33.so      [.] __GI_____strtoull_l_internal
         3.36%     +0.78%  bench-compose     [.] strcmp@plt
    
    Thanks to some careful packing, the memory usage is pretty much the
    same.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ran Benita <ran@unusedvar.com>
    

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  • libxkbcommon

    libxkbcommon is a keyboard keymap compiler and support library which processes a reduced subset of keymaps as defined by the XKB (X Keyboard Extension) specification. It also contains a module for handling Compose and dead keys and a separate library for listing available keyboard layouts.

    Quick Guide

    See Quick Guide.

    Building

    libxkbcommon is built with Meson:

    meson setup build
    ninja -C build

    To build for use with Wayland, you can disable X11 support while still using the X11 keyboard configuration resource files thusly:

    meson setup build \
        -Denable-x11=false \
        -Dxkb-config-root=/usr/share/X11/xkb \
        -Dx-locale-root=/usr/share/X11/locale
    ninja -C build

    API

    While libxkbcommon’s API is somewhat derived from the classic XKB API as found in X11/extensions/XKB.h and friends, it has been substantially reworked to expose fewer internal details to clients.

    See the API Documentation.

    Dataset

    libxkbcommon does not distribute a keymap dataset itself, other than for testing purposes. The most common dataset is xkeyboard-config, which is used by all current distributions for their X11 XKB data. More information on xkeyboard-config is available here:

    https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig

    The dataset for Compose is distributed in libX11, as part of the X locale data.

    Relation to X11

    See Compatibility notes.

    Development

    An extremely rudimentary homepage can be found at

    https://xkbcommon.org

    xkbcommon is maintained in git at

    https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon

    Patches are always welcome, and may be sent to either

    <xorg-devel@lists.x.org> or <wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>

    or in a GitHub pull request.

    Bug reports (and usage questions) are also welcome, and may be filed at GitHub.

    The maintainers are

    Credits

    Many thanks are due to Dan Nicholson for his heroic work in getting xkbcommon off the ground initially.