From: "Radosław Bułat" <radek.bulat@...>
Date: 2008-02-12T23:08:55+09:00
Subject: Re: very bad character performance on ruby1.9

> What is your locale's encoding? That gpl-2.0.txt file contains extended
> characters, and slice performs with O(n) on multibyte strings, so of
> course then it's slower. Since my locale is UTF-8 I had to change your
> script from
>    File.read("gpl-2.0.txt")
> to
>    File.open("gpl-2.0.txt", "r:iso-8859-1"){|f|f.read}
> in order to get correct results.
>

Thanks, it helped.


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