A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> Reminds me, this is not the only GNU tool that needs such
> treatment. GNU grep pays attention to the locale as well, but its
> encoding decoder is apparently written in Visual Basic -- if you
> use a UTF-8 locale, it will slow down by TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE.
>
> $ time LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 grep -cq tes /usr/share/dict/words
>
> real 0m0.686s
> user 0m0.680s
> sys 0m0.004s
>
> $ time LC_CTYPE=C grep -cq tes /usr/share/dict/words
>
> real 0m0.006s
> user 0m0.004s
> sys 0m0.000s
Are you sure you didn't just measure disk caching? I don't any different
results between the two on OS X.
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