From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 15 02:16:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0566A1065698 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:16:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from xps.daemonology.net (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6067414E6D1 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 35808 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2010 02:16:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xps.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Aug 2010 02:16:25 -0000 Message-ID: <4C674DF8.4020105@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:16:24 -0700 From: Colin Percival User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100803 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org References: <4C6505A4.9060203@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4C6505A4.9060203@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: core@freebsd.org Subject: TIMEOUT (was: Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:16:26 -0000 Hi all, Over the past 18 hours, I've received 22 emails in this thread. In email number 5, sent a mere 25 minutes after the thread started, gabor@ said that he agreed that the performance penalty in BSD grep compared to GNU grep was excessive and that he was going to revert back to having GNU grep as the default. Why are we still discussing this? If and when gabor@ (or someone else) has improved BSD grep performance and thinks that it's time to flip the switch back again, I'm sure there will be ample opportunity for everybody to run their favourite grep benchmarks, report numbers, and discuss the performance differences before BSD grep is (re-)made the default. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid