On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:15:56PM +0100, Jonathan Rawle wrote: > Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > > [arb@home arb]$ time grep zymology docs/sowpods.txt > > enzymology > > zymology > > > > real 0m0.267s > > user 0m0.260s > > sys 0m0.000s > > > > [arb@home arb]$ export LANG=C > > [arb@home arb]$ time grep zymology docs/sowpods.txt > > enzymology > > zymology > > > > real 0m0.012s > > user 0m0.000s > > sys 0m0.000s > > > > Grep is clearly still much slower in UTF8. > > I'm not sure that's quite a fair test as the files will be cached in the > second case. I know about caching, and so I first ran the test to fill the cache. And then I ran it with UTF on and then off. So I'm pretty sure caching wasn't an issue. Anyway, you can keep repeating this test with various different regular expressions, and you will see the difference in speed very clearly. -- Anand Buddhdev Celtel International
