Hello,
On Jan 29 22:17 Paulo Nogueira wrote (excerpt):
Although I am completely oblivious of the inner workings of grep, it seems rather strange that the ignore-case could take (say) tens of times longer to execute than the do-not-ignore-case -- and I am referring to normal ASCII files.
Have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Plain_Text_versus_Locale in particular the section "Processing UTF-8 is slower than ISO-8859 and ASCII" and replace the "wc" tool therein with "grep". In other words: Is grep still slow for you if you run it in a locale environment that uses single byte character encoding? Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer
