utf8 vs iso8859-1 speed/responsiveness
Ow Mun Heng
Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Wed Jun 30 00:12:38 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:29, William Hooper wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng said:
> > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:00, Hideki Hiura wrote:
> >
> >>> From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com>
> >>> Anyone knows how to tweak this parameter to say iso8859-1 via a proc
> >>> or a sysconfig interface/file? Does the change actually make a
> >>> difference?
> >>
> >> It probably depend on application...modern toolkits such as gtk+ use
> >> UTF-8 as internal encoding so changing external encoding from UTF-8 to
> >> iso8859-1 actually add extra step to convert UTF-8 to/from iso8859-1 upon
> >> I/O.
> >>
> > Well... then tell me this..
> >
> >
> > how come FC2 seems(IS) slower compared to my original RH9 install. I was
> > using iso8859-1 then and utf8 now.
>
> Different kernel version
> Different Gnome version
> Different KDE version
> Different compiler used
> etc., etc.
>
> Tell me this: Why is my apple slower than my original orange? :-)
So.. we're going towards the bloated concept again?
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