Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Performance issues using GAWK 3.1.6 ->from Win 2008 to Win 2016

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 21:27:22 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: Flavio.Paludetto@pseg.com, Marco.Pirane@pseg.com,
>  Ricardo_D.Pereira@pseg.com, Haritha.Koleti@pseg.com, bug-gawk@gnu.org
> 
> Gawk doesn't call
> 
>    setlocale (LC_ALL, "");

But it does call

     setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "");

So perhaps what Andrew suggests could also work.

Of course, MS-Windows codesets are generally single-byte, so I'm not
sure this could explain the 10-fold performance degradation.  But it
cannot hurt to try.