Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:18:47 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: dimitry@andric.com, dougb@freebsd.org, delphij@freebsd.org, gabor@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default Message-ID: <86bp8zdkp4.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20100818.121635.431102609571763034.imp@bsdimp.com> (M. Warner Losh's message of "Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:16:35 -0600 (MDT)") References: <4C6505A4.9060203@FreeBSD.org> <4C6C1CFE.6060900@FreeBSD.org> <20100818.121635.431102609571763034.imp@bsdimp.com>
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"M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
> So making it default turned out well in the end. Sure, there was pain
> involved (but this is current), but making it default exposed the pain
> that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. The big hue and cry, while
> excessive at times, did result in people actually running the
> profiling tools which pointed to the buffering as the number one thing
> to fix.
There is a lesson here: people who are unsatisfied with the performance
of ${TOOL} should profile it before they start a flamefest on -current.
DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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