locale-archive ?

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Wed Aug 10 09:36:19 UTC 2005


On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:32:21AM -0700, Frank Chen wrote:
> What's /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive for? This file

To speed up setlocale/newlocale function calls.

> is huge (>48M). What will happen if I delete this file?

You just slow down setlocale/newlocale in every program that uses it.
Since when is 50M huge?

	Jakub




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