[opensuse] Re: OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?
nordi wrote:
So this benchmark is not really measuring performance, it is measuring your language settings.
is not this a bug? do the non english users have to use a slow distro? jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 14 October 2007 12:04:05 jdd wrote:
nordi wrote:
So this benchmark is not really measuring performance, it is measuring your language settings.
is not this a bug? do the non english users have to use a slow distro?
It's nothing to do with English, it's just that things like grep are slower when you use unicode/utf-8 than when you use POSIX. It's been known for a while -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 14 October 2007 12:04:05 jdd wrote:
nordi wrote:
So this benchmark is not really measuring performance, it is measuring your language settings. is not this a bug? do the non english users have to use a slow distro?
It's nothing to do with English, it's just that things like grep are slower when you use unicode/utf-8 than when you use POSIX. It's been known for a while
as much as this, not by me!! and this should be think to fix (grep can be some time desperately slow) are there other apps impacted as much? thanks jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 14 October 2007 03:40, jdd wrote:
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as much as this, not by me!! and this should be think to fix (grep can be some time desperately slow)
Try egrep (grep -E) for full regular expressions. It converts the pattern from an NFA to a DFA (look it up if you care) and that's usually faster, especially if you're processing a lot of text, which seems to be the only case you'd could end up complaining about grep's speed. If you decide to use egrep and are unfamiliar, read up on the differences in the pattern language, because it uses are several meta-characters not found in the basic grep regular expressions. If you're searching for fixed strings, use fgrep (grep -F).
are there other apps impacted as much?
thanks jdd
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 14 October 2007 03:40:21 jdd wrote:
It's nothing to do with English, it's just that things like grep are
slower
when you use unicode/utf-8 than when you use POSIX.
as much as this, not by me!! and this should be think to fix (grep can be some time desperately slow)
It would be great to fix it, but impossible! UTF-8 is just more complex than ASCII. Nothing you can do about it. Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2007 17:12:35 schrieb Ian Smith:
as much as this, not by me!! and this should be think to fix (grep can be some time desperately slow)
It would be great to fix it, but impossible! UTF-8 is just more complex than ASCII. Nothing you can do about it. Of course we could all go back to ASCII, but wouldn't that be a step backwards?
I think this tiny bit of performance decrease is acceptable, I mean our machines are getting better and faster every day - heck why don't we allow us to have some comfort like this? ;) Greetings Michael
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Anders Johansson
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Ian Smith
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jdd
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Michael Skiba
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Randall R Schulz