sobering observation, python vs. perl

[Charles T. Smith]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:48:54 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo at gmail.com>:
> 
>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:29:47 +0000, Charles T. Smith wrote:
>>
>> And for completeness, and also surprising:
>>
>> time sed -n -e '/ is ready/{s///;h}' -e '/release_req/{g;p}'  *.out | sort -u
>> TestCase_F_00_P
>> TestCase_F_00_S
>> TestCase_F_01_S
>> TestCase_F_02_M
>>
>> real    0m10.998s
>> user    0m10.885s
>> sys     0m0.108s
>>
>> Twice as long as perl...  I guess there's no excuse for sed anymore...
> 
> Try running the sed command again after setting:
> 
> export LANG=C
> 
> 
> Marko

Hmmm.  Interesting thought.  But...

$ locale
LANG=C
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=