<p>
It originated as a part of the <a href="/holmes/">Sherlock Holmes</a> search engine,
but it is now developed separately.
+ However, the primary development motivation is still to serve the needs of projects demanding
+ both extreme speed and elegance.
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<div class="section" id="features"><h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Generic data structures (e.g., heaps, search trees, growing buffers)
<li>Very efficient memory allocators
<li>Event loop (watching over file descriptors, sub-processes, timers, and signals)
- <li>Configuration system
+ <li>Configuration and logging system
<li>Modular system for <tt>configure</tt> scripts
+ <li>String routines
+ <li>Various character and data types encoding and conversion
+ <li>Fast compression and checksums
<li>Build system
<li>Documentation system
<li>… and many more
<a href='http://mj.ucw.cz'>Martin Mareš</a>,
<a href="http://www.ucw.cz/~robert/index-en.html">Robert Špalek</a>,
Pavel Charvát,
+ Daniel Fiala,
+ Tomáš Gavenčiak,
+ Jan Moskyto Matějka,
+ Tomáš Valla
and <a href="http://vorner.ucw.cz/en/">Michal Vaner</a>.
</div>
<div class="section" id="download"><h2>Download</h2>
<p>
- The latest release of LibUCW is version 5.0 (see <a href='doc/relnotes.html'>release notes</a> and <a href='doc/'>online documentation</a>).
+ The latest release of LibUCW is version 6.0 (see <a href='doc/relnotes.html'>release notes</a> and <a href='doc/'>online documentation</a>).
<p>
It can be downloaded via <a href="download/">HTTP</a> or <a href="ftp://ftp.ucw.cz/pub/libucw/">FTP</a>.
<p>