On 10 March 2010 00:43, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 9 March 2010 23:40, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Ken submitted the patch two years ago against grep 2.5.3. The purpose >> of the patch was >> >> Description: Various fixes, particularly speed improvements for UTF-8 >> locales. Also adds a 'standard input' marker into the results for >> certain obscure uses. >
There are still reports of slowness in bug-grep, but I'm optimistic that 2.6 might improve things. The problem is that if you grep a large (text) file in a UTF-8 locale, the elapsed time increases. Unfortunately, I don't have any large files with multi-byte characters. With a 500KB+ file containing ASCII (the syslog), there is a small slowdown but I suspect part of that might be from loading the new environment. Looking at debian's 2.5.4-4, which I believe is their latest, the patches are 60, 61, 63,64,65, 66,67 and now 69 (which is newer). If I don't apply the patches, the testsuite is happy. If I do apply them, it fails as noted. Bruce, which patch are you using ? ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!"
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