Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:44:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Ted Unangst <tedu@stanford.edu> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diff(1) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0409211236540.2870-100000@elaine31.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <xzp1xh0a8wt.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > I don't know how much they've changed it, but I do know that it still > uses whichever regexp engine you happen to have in libc. In our case, nothing earth-shaking changed. it avoids regex for simple patterns which places it roughly in the same speed bracket as gnu grep. (depends on how many megabytes you're grepping if you'll notice a difference). plus an assortment of flags and corner cases which pop up when you make it system default and lots of people start using it. --=20
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