On Nov 7 15:26, aputerguy wrote: > > Changing LC_ALL also solved the problem for me. > But it begs the question of how many other basic and take-for-granted > functions might be affected by this apparent UTF-8 slowdown. And again we, > are not talking about some minor overhead, we are talking about a slowdown > of 1500X or 150,000%!!!!
Yeah, that's really still strange to me. In my testing, the multibyte to widechar conversion performed by grep in case of UTF-8 took only 1.5 up to 4 seconds for 10 times the number of input lines as in your case. It still puzzles me where the time is wasted in grep. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
