patch 8.0.0190: finding duplicate tags uses a slow linear search commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/810f9c361c83afb36b9f1cdadca2b93f1201d039 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Jan 15 16:52:51 2017 +0100 patch 8.0.0190: finding duplicate tags uses a slow linear search Problem: Detecting duplicate tags uses a slow linear search. Solution: Use a much faster hash table solution. (James McCoy, closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1046) But don't add hi_keylen, it makes hash tables 50% bigger.

Test for search('multi-byte char', 'bce')

STARTTEST
:source small.vim
:source mbyte.vim
:set encoding=utf-8
:/^Test bce:/+1
:$put =search('Ａ', 'bce', line('.'))
:1;/^Results:/,$wq! test.out
ENDTEST

Results:

Test bce:
Ａ