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Introduction to gperf

GNU gperf is a perfect hash function generator. For a given list of strings, it produces a hash function and hash table, in form of C or C++ code, for looking up a value depending on the input string. The hash function is perfect, which means that the hash table has no collisions, and the hash table lookup needs a single string comparison only.

GNU gperf is highly customizable. There are options for generating C or C++ code, for emitting switch statements or nested ifs instead of a hash table, and for tuning the algorithm employed by gperf.

Online Manual is available at www.gnu.org/software/gperf/manual/gperf.html

Downloading gperf

gperf can be found on in the subdirectory /gnu/gperf/ on your favorite GNU mirror. For other ways to obtain gperf, please read How to get GNU Software.

The latest release is http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gperf/gperf-3.1.tar.gz

The latest development sources can be obtained through the savannah project.


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Updated: $Date: 2017/01/05 15:52:09 $ $Author: marcelschaible $