Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 17:35:06 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep. Message-ID: <3E29D69A.C010C47E@bellatlantic.net> References: <20030118050802.23784.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com>
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"Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote: > > FWIW; > > The UNIX grep executable is like >3 times smaller than > GNU grep but also like 3 times slower. I think that it's said in GNU grep readme: they have knowingly chosen a faster but more memory-consuming algorithm. And I think that they've done similar choices in the other tools as well. After all, we are not limited by a 64KB limit any more, are we ? :-) > Also .. JIC you wonder, I only built this for > curiosity, I recommend keeping GNU grep unless Caldera > changes the license :). Also the GNU grep has a lot more options, the most interesting of them being -r. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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