Ask HN: Base new open-source library on an existing one, or start from scratch?
One of my projects uses a BSD-licensed C library which works fine but is too slow for my needs. The developers of the library have told me that they are not interested in making the major internal changes necessary to improve its speed.I would therefore like to write an alternative to this library which focuses on performance. I will also be writing in C and am happy to use the BSD license,...