On tis, 2012-06-19 at 02:38 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > On mån, 2012-06-18 at 17:57 -0400, James Cloos wrote:
> >> I presume that lc_ctype is the significant difference?
>
> > It certainly makes some difference, but it's a bit shocking that
> makes
> > things that much slower.
>
> If James is testing text-comparison-heavy operations, it doesn't seem
> shocking in the least. strcoll() in most non-C locales is a pig.
Ah yes, of course, having lc_ctype != C also selects strcoll instead of
strcmp.