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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,  libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: C.UTF-8 review
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:37:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eebuuxgf.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a2dab05-ee68-2593-cf9b-707eb1552ec5@redhat.com> (Carlos O'Donell's message of "Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:33:08 -0400")

* Carlos O'Donell:

> On 7/15/21 4:56 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Paul Eggert:
>> 
>>> Dumb question. Will C.UTF-8 have the same worst-case strcoll
>>> performance that en_US.UTF-8 does? I'm asking because I wonder whether
>>> we can recommend C.UTF-8 as a workaround for the strcoll performance
>>> bug, in cases where plain C is not appropriate.
>>>
>>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18441
>>>
>>> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=49340
>> 
>> I'm not sure if that advice is correct …
>
> Could you expand on this a bit more please?

Using C.UTF-8 with collation rules is unlikely to provide the intended
speed benefit.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-19 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-14 11:57 Florian Weimer
2021-07-14 23:06 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-15  8:56   ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-19 15:33     ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-07-19 15:37       ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-07-21  3:11 ` Carlos O'Donell

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