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Re: grep is horriby slow in UTF-8 locales
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Owen Taylor |
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Re: grep is horriby slow in UTF-8 locales |
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Fri, 07 Nov 2003 10:47:51 -0500 |
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:52, Markus Kuhn wrote:
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> It seems grep performs about 100x worse in a UTF-8 locale than in and
> ASCII locale, even where the search strring contains no regex
> metacharacters.
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> And fgrep is no better.
Tim Waugh has been working on some improvements to grep in
multibyte locales; see:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2003-November/msg00237.html
Regards,
Owen