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Contributors to GNU gperf Utility ¶

• The GNU gperf perfect hash function generator utility was written in GNU C++ by Douglas C. Schmidt. The general idea for the perfect hash function generator was inspired by Keith Bostic’s algorithm written in C, and distributed to net.sources around 1984. The current program is a heavily modified, enhanced, and extended implementation of Keith’s basic idea, created at the University of California, Irvine. Bugs, patches, and suggestions should be reported to <bug-gperf@gnu.org>.
• Special thanks is extended to Michael Tiemann and Doug Lea, for providing a useful compiler, and for giving me a forum to exhibit my creation.

  In addition, Adam de Boor and Nels Olson provided many tips and insights that greatly helped improve the quality and functionality of gperf.

• Bruno Haible enhanced and optimized the search algorithm. He also rewrote the input routines and the output routines for better reliability, and added a testsuite.