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Message-ID: <20110916014323.GA14597@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:43:23 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Faster (and better) duplicate rule removal code

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:45:38AM -0500, jfoug wrote:
> $1 and Az"1"

This will likely be handled by my planned rules optimization pass, which
will turn unoptimal rules like Az"1" into their special-case equivalents
like $1.

> As for a 'dupe', Solar, what is the difference, in reality from Al"123" and
> Az"123"  ?   (the lower cased L)  They seem to be somewhat interchangeable.

They're in fact different in some contexts: "l" might not be the current
length - it is only updated whenever the "v" command is used.

Alexander

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