On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Z. Majeed <[email protected]> wrote: > I see the reason is the workaround in do_execute that turns on line-by-line > matching for -i across the board - I got runtime confirmation by trying > "<name>.*[rR][uU][sS][sS][iI][aA]" - the times were faster than for grep > 2.5.1 with -i: > 3.59user 2.95system 0:06.55elapsed > > I'm not sure if the workaround is for the -i problem in UTF-8 locales > discussed in http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29391. This bug report really > should be titled "--ignore-case very slow in grep 2.14"
Thanks for the reminder. I'm about to release grep-2.15, but after that, I will be inclined to address that problem.
