Fintan Ryan wrote: [Please keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the CC: field for AST-related topics since not all people there are subscribed to all other opensolaris-org lists, too] > >>> Linux i686 0.704u 0.004s 0:00.70 100.0% 5587 ms > >>> 2079.593 > >> 1. Which locale do you use ? > > > > LC_CTYPE is set to en_US and LC_LANG/LC_ALL are unset. So I assume > > 'en_US'. > > Can you try using the C locale, en_US is now a utf8 locale afaik,
Erm... since when was "en_US" in Solaris mapped to "en_US.UTF-8" (it would be nice to announce such things since it's important for people who run tests on their software...) ? Ienup ? > the > I18N folks would be able to confirm this. utf8 will cause an overhead > for regex's. ... since it's a multibyte locale. But for the GNU stuff there is a 3rd issue - since a while they add special UTF-8 hacks to speed the processing for such endings up (sometimes at the expense of being restricted to the BMP or similar things (e.g. if you have one charatcer outside the BMP your regex patter may not work anymore)) which means GNU tools must be tested with singlebyte locales, an UTF-8-based locale and a non-UTF-8-based locale... fun... ;-( ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org