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Re: 1.7] BUG - GREP slows to a crawl with large number of matches on a single file
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
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