TSLMENDIAN(1)

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🌸 TSLMENDIAN(1) 🌸

okay so we're in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and today's main character is tslmendian. she's here to flip byte-order and she's gonna look cute doing it 💅✨

✨ NAME — what is she 💖

tslmendian — change the byte-order of sunpinyin's threaded back-off language model. that's the whole assignment, bestie, no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS — the vibe check 🎀

tslmendian [option]

💜 DESCRIPTION — the tea ☕

slmendian converts the binary language model files used by SunPinyin from big-endian to small-endian or vice versa. she's literally just flipping the endian-ness, it's giving bilingual icon behavior 🌈

🔥 OPTIONS — pick your fighter 🔥

  • -e endian — specify the output-lm-file's endian-ness. it can be le or ge. if you don't pass it, tslmendian just uses the host's endian-ness and honestly? she's valid for that.
  • -v — prints out the endian-ness of input-lm-file. a little peek under the hood, we love a transparent queen 👑
  • -i input-lm-file — identify the input file of convert. generally this file is generated by slmthread.
  • -o out-lm-file — identify the output file of convert. she's the glow-up target, the final form 💖

😭 NOTES — read this before you come for me 😭

ok so the converted output file is equivalent to the input. BUT — and this is important — if you compare the output of tslminfo of both files, the ARPA file generated by tslminfo may come out different. this is due to the different precision in different machines. not a bug, just machine drama 💀
and due to uninitialized padding data in data structure, the checksum of the original data file may be different from the converted-back file, even though they are identical from SunPinyin's point of view. so if the checksum is acting sus, that's why 🙈

👑 AUTHOR — the icons behind it 👑

Originally written by Kov. Chai <tchaikov.gmail.com>. Currently maintained by Kov.Chai <tchaikov@gmail.com>. we stan a maintained legacy 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO — more reading for your syllabus 🌈

slmthread(1). tslminfo. go read those if you're nosy like me, iykyk 💅

mwah 💋 this little manual lives under perl v5.36.0 and is dated 2023-08-08 — periodt, that's the whole page bestie 💖✨

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