[Bug 223532] GNU egrep -i is terrible slow if utf-8 locale is enabled

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223532

Stefan Eßer <se@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Stefan Eßer <se@FreeBSD.org> ---
Created attachment 225506
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Build with WITH_INTERNAL_NOSPEC for better performance

Building with -DWITH_INTERNAL_NOSPEC makes "fgrep -i" use the internal
implementation of the comparison function instead of regcomp() from the C
library.

The performance impact of using -i with or without UTF-8 is only a factor of
about 3 instead of 100:

$ LANG=C time fgrep zpipe /usr/ports/INDEX-14 
        0.03 real         0.03 user         0.00 sys

$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 time fgrep zpipe /usr/ports/INDEX-14
        0.03 real         0.03 user         0.00 sys

$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 time fgrep -i zpipe /usr/ports/INDEX-14 
        0.10 real         0.09 user         0.00 sys

$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 time fgrep-ORIG -i zpipe /usr/ports/INDEX-14 
        4.47 real         4.47 user         0.00 sys

(fgrep has been built with WITH_INTERNAL_NOSPEC, while fgrep-FBSD is a copy of
the original FreeBSD fgrep built without that option.)

Both the original version and the modified version fail the same 4 kyua tests,
BTW.

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