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bug#16232: [PATCH] grep: make --ignore-case (-i) faster (sometimes 10x)


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: bug#16232: [PATCH] grep: make --ignore-case (-i) faster (sometimes 10x) in multibyte locales
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:00:38 -0800

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 02/19/2014 11:17 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> I haven't investigated they "why" yet, but expect that I will make
>> grep-2.18 with just this one performance-improving patch.
>
> Can you make room for one more patch?  I have a test case and bugfix for
> grep's mishandling of regular expressions like [^^-~] in unibyte locales
> like the C locale on most platforms; this is due to the range-expression bug
> that Arnold reported recently.I can send out the patch later today if you
> like.  The bug has been present since grep 2.8 so I can understand if you'd
> rather wait to fix it until later.

Hi Paul,
I'll be very happy to consider it.





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