From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 13 09:34:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5725B1065693 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:34:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D92F58FC17 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:34:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12501 invoked by uid 399); 13 Aug 2010 09:34:12 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 13 Aug 2010 09:34:12 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C651192.9020403@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:34:10 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100807 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabor Kovesdan References: <4C6505A4.9060203@FreeBSD.org> <4C650B75.3020800@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4C650B75.3020800@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: delphij@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: 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: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:34:13 -0000 On 08/13/2010 02:08, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Ok, I'll take care of this soon, and make GNU grep default, again with a > knob to build BSD grep. I agree with you that we cannot allow such a big > performance drawback but I my measures only showed significant > differences for very big searches and I didn't imagine that it could add > up to such a big diference. To be fair, I didn't notice a performance difference either until I started revamping this code that calls my parse_index() for every single installed port. Given a 22,042 line INDEX file, that's enough to add up to something noticeable. > I'm sorry for the bad decision I took making it default. As I've said all along, I don't think you made a bad decision in having it as the default to start. It was certainly different than what we usually do with new utilities, but that didn't make the decision wrong. I asked you at the time to keep an open mind about the possibility that the default might need to be flipped, and I appreciate you being reasonable about it now. Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso