Re: grep LC bug if fixed would make grep 1000 times faster

[Dan Jacobson]

The correct solution should not penalize the C locale at all, it seems.
S> What I meant was that I have to be very careful so that grep won't
S> sudennly give incorrect results under the good old C locale.
As all the problems begin after non C is detected, then just work on
that part and C will be safe.

Or whatever. Anyway, thanks for making it a priority. Just as a user
this slows things up so much. I can't imaging what would happen if
from init(1) the whole machine was non C...