V3 PATCH: Disable wide-character tests where necessary

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> I think that some level of compile-time performance improvement is
> essential before 3.0,

Will --enable-checking be turned off by default on the branch (it was off
for 2.95)?  If so (or indeed if not), does anyone have current figures for
how much performance difference this makes?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk