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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: cvs commit:  src/gnu/usr.bin/sort sort.c
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Andrey A. Chernov writes:
>ache        96/06/09 09:19:11
>
>  Modified:    gnu/usr.bin/sort  sort.c
>  Log:
>  Compare 8bit alpha characters alphabetically using strcoll()

Did you do a performance test? On my 2.1R machine

locate / | head -10000 > /tmp/list

yesterday
$ time ./sort < /tmp/list >/dev/null
        2.30 real         2.05 user         0.21 sys

today
$ time ./sort < /tmp/list >/dev/null 
        7.37 real         6.51 user         0.18 sys

;-(((