Re: LC_CTYPE makes grep 800 times slower!

[Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "S" == Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:

S> The Debian bug 181378 contains a pointer to a copy of RedHat's patch;
Downstream fixes not used by upstream? I'll look next time I dialup.
S> have you tried that?  Does it help? ...a developer which _uses_
S> those locales would help. Do you know about a suitable volunteer?

I like to be just an alarm sounder.  The pros (you) then take over as
I go look for the next alarm to sound.  Plus I don't have things like
source code to use patches on my machine.  Isolated. Low bandwidth. Sorry.

S> test case illustrating that the grep is 800 slower then with C locale.
Probably in http://bugs.debian.org/206470 or merged bugs. Ask me again if not.
S> And please state which version of glibc you use
$ apt-cache showpkg grep
Package: grep
2.5.1.ds1-2
Dependencies:
2.5.1.ds1-2 - libc6 (2 2.3.2.ds1-4)