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(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/")
(synopsis "Perfect hash function generator")
(description
- "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.")
+ "gperf is a perfect hash function generator. For a given list of strings,
+it produces a hash function and hash table in C or C++ code. That the hash
+function is perfect means that no collisions can exist and that look-ups can be
+made by single string comparisons.")
(license gpl3+)))