Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:53:26 -0400 From: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> To: giffunip@asme.org Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: free grep (was Re: Shells) Message-ID: <200004190053.UAA10574@rac5.wam.umd.edu>
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I read this in the -arch archives... Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Heh..:-) Please replace grep with the recently developed free grep and HA! Freegrep is no where near ready. Everyone has complained about the speed issues (yeah, it was slow) and I am still working to speed it up. The version currently in the ports tree (textproc/freegrep) is a whole lot faster but still sucks compared to the GNU version. I tore my hair out trying to figure out how they did it. I last touched the sources in December and I am getting incrementally closer to the speed of GNU but I am still not there. I also think I broken a number of options but it depends on which release you are using. I think the 0.15 in the ports tree has most of the options currently working, but I am going from memory. Unfortunetly, I have not done anything since December and will not until June due to classwork (I hate being a student). If anyone is interested in looking at all the work completed so far, let me know and I will let you at the most current sources. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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