Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: > BTW if you know the data will only have ASCII spacing, > one can use LC_ALL=C to get the performant byte-search. > It's probably worth mentioning that in the texinfo. > I'll do that now with:
It is probably worth mentioning this as often as possible. I feel like I commonly see people create alternative programs that claim to be faster than X program from coreutils, using ASCII data and a non-C locale to benchmark. The alternative program could very well still be faster if LC_ALL=C were set, but it is still a bit misleading. Perhaps that is one area where examples could help. I remember seeing discussion about adding more previously on [email protected]. Collin
