Short of a bug or other pathological issue, if you resort to messing with locale just to avoid a performance problem, you're likely to hide other issues that wi

Short of a bug or other pathological issue, if you resort to messing with locale just to avoid a performance problem, you're likely to hide other issues that will cause problems whenever another user attempts to do the same thing and it breaks. Again, not worth it -- if only for performance sake, generally speaking.