From 132526780a7373d92e1d9b92fc76138beec07a13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 19:32:03 +0000
Subject: (find_transition): Instead of a linear search try to guess the
 transition index, use a linear search if the result is at most 10 transitions
 away from the guess or binary search otherwise.

---
 time/tzfile.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'time/tzfile.c')

diff --git a/time/tzfile.c b/time/tzfile.c
index ea2d7cae4c..0d48c8ca0c 100644
--- a/time/tzfile.c
+++ b/time/tzfile.c
@@ -548,13 +548,60 @@ find_transition (time_t timer)
       if (i == num_types)
 	i = 0;
     }
+  else if (timer >= transitions[num_transitions - 1])
+    i = type_idxs[num_transitions - 1];
   else
     {
       /* Find the first transition after TIMER, and
 	 then pick the type of the transition before it.  */
-      for (i = 1; i < num_transitions; ++i)
-	if (timer < transitions[i])
-	  break;
+      size_t lo = 0;
+      size_t hi = num_transitions - 1;
+      /* Assume that DST is changing twice a year and guess initial
+	 search spot from it.
+	 Half of a gregorian year has on average 365.2425 * 86400 / 2
+	 = 15778476 seconds.  */
+      i = (transitions[num_transitions - 1] - timer) / 15778476;
+      if (i < num_transitions)
+	{
+	  i = num_transitions - 1 - i;
+	  if (timer < transitions[i])
+	    {
+	      if (i < 10 || timer >= transitions[i - 10])
+		{
+		  /* Linear search.  */
+		  while (timer < transitions[i - 1])
+		    --i;
+		  goto found;
+		}
+	      hi = i - 10;
+	    }
+	  else
+	    {
+	      if (i + 10 >= num_transitions || timer < transitions[i + 10])
+		{
+		  /* Linear search.  */
+		  while (timer >= transitions[i])
+		    ++i;
+		  goto found;
+		}
+	      lo = i + 10;
+	    }
+	}
+
+      /* Binary search.  */
+      /* assert (timer >= transitions[lo] && timer < transitions[hi]); */
+      while (lo + 1 < hi)
+	{
+	  i = (lo + hi) / 2;
+	  if (timer < transitions[i])
+	    hi = i;
+	  else
+	    lo = i;
+	}
+      i = hi;
+
+    found:
+      /* assert (timer >= transitions[i - 1] && timer < transitions[i]); */
       i = type_idxs[i - 1];
     }
 
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