Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 10:55:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Sean Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Sean Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org> Subject: Replacing GNU grep revisited Message-ID: <20030621103502.K18572@thor.farley.org>
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In January, Pedro Giffuni started a thread about replacing GNU's grep in the system. Interestingly, I did not know about the grep thread on hackers until later. James Howard had interjected in February with mention that he had gotten patches to speed up freegrep. I had sent him those patches in late January, but I have not heard from him since. Hopefully, he is OK and just busy. I have placed the patches up on Geocities=B9 for others to try out. They get freegrep fairly close to the performance of GNU's grep. Also included is a small patch to regex to squeak a bit more performance out of it, but I am not certain if it actually helps or not. BTW, Postgres is using a newer version of the regex library--swiped from TCL--that FreeBSD uses. It supports multibyte characters. Is it time for an update? =B9 http://www.geocities.com/sean_farley/ Sean P.S. Please Cc me as I am not on the list. ----------------------- sean-freebsd@farley.org
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