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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: replacing grep(1)
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 30 Jul 1999 15:30:33 +0200
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> writes:
> John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> writes:
> > it was VERY simple to do... and attached is the patch... this uses the
> > option REG_STARTEND to do what the copy was trying to do... all of the
> > code to use REG_STARTEND was already there, it just needed to be enabled..
> Funnily, I experience a near-doubling of running time with similar
> patches.

To be precise, I experience a 30% decrease in system time and a 100%
increase in user time when I use RE_STARTEND and eliminate the
malloc() / memcpy() calls in procfile().

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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