C.UTF-8 review

[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?

> With the new C.UTF-8 implementation, strcoll automatically switches to
> strcmp, so it will be as fast as it can be.

Agreed.

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Cheers,
Carlos.