On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 18:08, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >>On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:29, William Hooper wrote: > >>Tell me this: Why is my apple slower than my original orange? :-) > >> > >> > >So.. we're going towards the bloated concept again? > > > > > Not exactly... The issue is the input file. > In RH 9 , the input file probably was iso8859-1 and then it was > processed without any conversion , as the whole system was using > iso8859-1. Now in fedora , the input file has to be converted by the > app to UTF8 , so this extra step means that FC will be a bit slower > than a native iso8859-1 system . If the system was native UTF8 and the > input file was also UTF8, it should be at least as fast as a native ISO > system. That I can understand. So, what I would also like to understand is how I can determine if the input is Utf8 or iso8859-1. I think right now, Firefox/squid is having some issues. I'm seeing poor performance after switching to en_US and rebooting. Please let me know. Thanks.
