Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:42:11 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: tim@kientzle.com Cc: dougb@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, core@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org, gabor@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default Message-ID: <20100815.154211.338122493920752843.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <894C8953-7F2F-486F-8701-A3DFF65D7627@kientzle.com> References: <4C673F02.8000805@FreeBSD.org> <3CF90102-4DD5-4A44-925B-C215AE5AB36A@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> <894C8953-7F2F-486F-8701-A3DFF65D7627@kientzle.com>
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Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> writes:
:
: On Aug 15, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote:
:
: > On 15 Aug 2010, at 3:12, Doug Barton wrote:
: >
: >> (And before anyone bothers to reply saying "Use pkg_info -O for that"
: >> I'll save you the trouble. My version is from 10-20% faster. Not sure
: >> why, don't really care.) :)
: >
: >
: > Congrats for beating the performance of a(nother) utility in base, but - regardless of whether you'd use it in that case - doesn't that just indicate that pkg_info could use some performance improvements as well?
:
: http://libpkg.googlecode.com/
:
: This is David Forsyth's GSoC project to build a standard library
: for managing the on-disk package database.
:
: His pkg_info implementation built on this library is in fact
: a lot faster than what's currently in the tree. He's starting
: to prototype pkg_delete and pkg_add on the new library
: but there's still a lot of work to do.
heh, maybe he needs to do work on an upgrader too. :)
Warner
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