LC_ALL=C makes grep faster because text matching is normally locale-sensitive, f...

		paralelogram on Jan 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop ... LC_ALL=C makes grep faster because text matching is normally locale-sensitive, for example 'S' ('\x53' in Big5) is not a substring of '兄' ('\xA5\x53' in Big5).