Subject: Re: bug#40540: Faster sort with locale

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:56:47 -0700

On 4/10/20 6:19 AM, Ole Tange wrote:
> But would it be possible to convert the input string1 into a string in
> a generalized format, which would sort the same way as the localized
> sort, but using a simple compare?

I tried doing that a long time ago by using strxfrm, but it made 'sort' 
significantly slower. You're welcome to try again; perhaps things have changed.