johnboyer

It was my understanding that the asymmetric key pair was generated locally, and only the public key was exchanged. I am unsure about whether or not this is a requirement of the Signal protocol, but Signal itself will only store the private key locally, meaning they would need to alter their software in order to store said keys in a centralized database.

Android/iOS will always have a chokehold on their users. The Librem 5 is a potential alternative, a Matrix-integrated and fully open source phone. Although it still has some rough edges to be ironed out.

I would most definitely be interested. I always assumed that certain algorithms are better suited for certain string sizes, but I was never sure which ones. The ideal implementation is probably combining multiple algorithms with ranges of the string size.

Thanks for the feedback! I did forget to change the version in the documentation, updated that now. As for the usability of the docs, Doxygen isn't exactly known for its intuitive user interface, but I will try my best to make it easier to navigate.

I just really needed a string library written in C, and it didn't seem as though there were many options. The first thing I found was the Simple Dynamic Strings library, but it wasn't maintained and depended on GCC extensions, so I decided to write my own. After getting a basic functional concatenation, I benchmarked it against std::string to see how slow it was, and to my great surprise, it was actually faster. From that point, I realized I can actually write some pretty fast code, and I decided to make the library centered around that.

Most of the STL is header only, which is what the library is compared to in the benchmarks. Both would be just as likely to get inlined.

As it turns out, I actually have the Boyer-Moore string searching algorithm as one of the planned features in the Project section on GitHub.

Unicode is supported with UTF-8, only different character types aren't supported because generics are messy in C. I thought of accepting void* to support wchar_t and others, but some performance penalties came with it so I decided against it.

Hey there, creator of the library here. Strangely enough my initial post about this on HN received no attention, but better late than never!

If any of you have some questions or feedback, I would be delighted to hear it.

From my understanding, the primary purpose of this is for backup and syncing your Google Drive files between multiple devices, which is very similar in nature to Syncthing. Is there something else that I am missing?

Although this is fairly nice, I would recommend Syncthing over this. It has the benefit of not relying on any third party to store your data, it's all exclusively on your devices, along with some very solid security.

Although it does help, I would say its only a bit faster than actually just setting a breakpoint of where you want the code to stop, and running till then, unlike Microsoft's example which shows 85 step intos, as if people actually do that.

Doesn't load in Canada either, at least for me.