Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:13:39 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "V. T. Mueller\, Continum" <v.t.mueller@continum.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default Message-ID: <867hjmdfdo.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <4C6D0BBB.90304@continum.net> (V. T. Mueller's message of "Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:47:23 %2B0200") References: <4C6505A4.9060203@FreeBSD.org> <4C6C1CFE.6060900@FreeBSD.org> <20100818.121635.431102609571763034.imp@bsdimp.com> <86bp8zdkp4.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4C6D0BBB.90304@continum.net>
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"V. T. Mueller, Continum" <v.t.mueller@continum.net> writes: > If you're alluding to Dougs original email, I will strictly disagree. > He found a performance issue which noone had seen or brought up before > and gave feedback to Gabor in a constructive and distinctively polite > manner. It would have been far more "constructive and distinctively polite" to take ten minutes to build and run a profiling version of grep, and include the results in the OP. > I would also second, that changing back the default immediately then > would have been the better choice. No, it would only have ensured that nobody except Gabor used it. > In other words: as long as there are unresolved issues, the default > should be set to GNU grep. This doesn't stop anyone from improving the > BSD grep we're all waiting for. It only does good to those who rely on > using grep - expecting correctness and speed. Based on my 12 years of experience in this project, you are very, very wrong. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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