https://dotat.at/@/2022-07-01-dns-compress.html
In our previous episode, I optimized tolower()
using SWAR tricks.
That was in fact a side-quest to a side-quest to a side-quest. The first
side-quest was trying out a new DNS name compression algorithm; in BIND,
compression is performance-critical and a heavy user of tolower(), which is what
set me off on the second and third side-quests.
Now let's pop the stack, and talk about DNS names.
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