Re: sort 5.2.1 is VERY slow

[Tim Waugh]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:27:18PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> It cannot do the former.  There are encodings where bytes that look like
> plain ASCII are in fact part of a multibyte sequence.  But it may be
> worthwhile to special case UTF-8 which does not have this problem.

I have patched for grep to make it lots faster with UTF-8, and have
been trying to get them submitted upstream for ages.

Also, the glibc regex implementation does perform the above
optimisation (more or less) anyway, I believe.

Tim.
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