> However, in mine the difference when using a "stock" 3.2.3 is barely > noticeable, going from 9 seconds to 8 seconds. > > Adding in a good handful of SARE rules (1365 extra rules, counting "score" > lines) makes the difference quite significant. > > Without "use bytes" and the SARE rules: > real 0m21.626s > user 0m20.873s > sys 0m0.264s > > With "use bytes" added to Message.pm, and the SARE rules: > real 0m9.012s > user 0m6.468s > sys 0m0.240s
Do you have a UTF-8 -based locale in the environment? (what does command 'locale' tell?) If so, turning it off (set to "C") is very desirable. Mark
