Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> The old name followed the pattern anything-cmp(), which suggests >> a general comparison function suitable for e.g. sorting objects. >> But this was not the case for suffixcmp(). > > It's not clear to me that prefixcmp() is usable for sorting objects, > either. Shouldn't it get the same treatment? Sounds like a plan for a good follow-up series. > If some day we invent a type for 4-byte-aligned object names, it might > make sense to do something similar to hashcmp, distinguishing between > hashcmp for use where ordering is important and something like hash_eq > when checking for equality (since I suspect the latter can be made > faster). Interesting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html