Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:37:09 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org, Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, K?vesd?n G?bor <gabor@t-hosting.hu>, "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> Subject: Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo] Message-ID: <20080617103708.GB46479@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <861w2wgyqh.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <485453F2.60507@FreeBSD.org> <4854BC29.3060507@FreeBSD.org> <4854C96A.1080603@aueb.gr> <48556AAD.9010602@t-hosting.hu> <20080615212613.GA97326@nagual.pp.ru> <4855EDFE.3010708@FreeBSD.org> <86bq211rqw.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080617002224.GA16122@nagual.pp.ru> <861w2wgyqh.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:08:38PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > I hadn't noticed... ISTR it was an issue back when jphoward wrote his > BSD-licensed grep. BSD grep have enough (but not fatal, as BSD sort) problems even with single byte locales we support initially in our regex (old pre-multibyte versions), so lack of multibyte support there is too far seeing issue. > However, it's not the same engine - it's Spencer's old engine with > multibyte support added. IIRC, it performs very poorly compared to the > GNU regexp engine; it would be interesting to see how well the Tcl > engine performs in comparison. Yes. Upgrading to most recent engine will be nice. -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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