I have decided that the only way to make mb faster was to change the underlying structure from {Encoding::atom(), String::list()} to {Encoding::atom(), String::binary()}. Which implied a thorough overhaul of the code. I am almost done, although still fighting with some issues. Still, preliminary tests tend to show that the change was worthwile: mb:reset() – the creation of the encodings-related text files into dets tables – is easily faster by half. Only one test in the test suite passes so far, and it too executes quite faster than the original.
As a side note, I have discovered something puzzling. Say you have a variable Code1 which contains the integer value 0×2121. I was expecting that doing <<Code1>> would yield <<33,33>>. Nopesky. It yields <<”!”>>. You have to do <<Code1:16>> – and hope the integer is not greater than 65535: if your integer was, say, 0×012345, <<Code1:16>> would yield <<35,69>>. Ah well…
I am maintaining the source code with git. It is quite pleasant to use, although I have yet to manage to push the repository correctly to the public repository. So nothing is published yet, except partial docs. MNK, who gave me a FreeBSD jail to play with, and is hosting the whole thing, is playing with a git to mercurial bridge. We’ll probably have one day a <your_scm> to mb repository bridge. Maybe.
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