Much faster grep

[Bill Rugolsky Jr.]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:52:31PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> It gives quite significant speed improvements for multibyte (UTF-8)
> handling, but needs lots of real world testing to make sure there are
> no regressions.
 
Thank you, thank you, thank you!  The notion that a UTF-8 performance
regression of several hundred times in core text utils is not
a showstopper boggles my mind.

[I'm still mulling which is the greater headache with FC1: UTF-8 or
 C locale.]

Regards,

	Bill Rugolsky