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[0/3] Optimize inet_ntop

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Adhemerval Zanella June 3, 2025, 7:51 p.m. UTC 
Some projects override inet_ntop because the glibc implementation
shows a significant amount of overhead [1][2].  The main culprit
is the internal sprintf, which requires a lot of internal function
calls and is quite slow.  The recent fortifying work required extra
maintenance from these projects (and worse, it might prevent us from
actually using the fortification depending on how the wrapper is
implemented).

To avoid the need to resort to such hacks, this patchset optimizes
inet_ntop.  The resulting performance should be similar to the one
from frr project (and hopefully they might stop it to use a different
implementation).

Adhemerval Zanella (3):
  benchtests: Add IPv4 inet_ntop benchmark
  benchtests: Add IPv6 inet_ntop benchmark
  resolv: Optimize inet_ntop

 benchtests/Makefile                |    6 +
 benchtests/inet_ntop_ipv4-inputs   | 1003 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 benchtests/inet_ntop_ipv4-source.c |   10 +
 benchtests/inet_ntop_ipv6-inputs   | 1003 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 benchtests/inet_ntop_ipv6-source.c |   10 +
 resolv/inet_ntop.c                 |  134 ++--
 6 files changed, 2119 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 benchtests/inet_ntop_ipv4-inputs
 create mode 100644 benchtests/inet_ntop_ipv4-source.c
 create mode 100644 benchtests/inet_ntop_ipv6-inputs
 create mode 100644 benchtests/inet_ntop_ipv6-source.c