Re: grep is horriby slow in UTF-8 locales

Markus Kuhn wrote: On Red Hat 9: $ grep --version grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1 $ LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 time grep XYZ test.txt Command exited with non-zero status 1 6.83user 0.07system 0:06.93elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (157major+34minor)pagefaults 0swaps $ LC_ALL=POSIX

grep is horriby slow in UTF-8 locales

On Red Hat 9: $ grep --version grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1 $ LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 time grep XYZ test.txt Command exited with non-zero status 1 6.83user 0.07system 0:06.93elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (157major+34minor)pagefaults 0swaps $ LC_ALL=POSIX time grep XYZ test.