Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:59:13 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diff(1) Message-ID: <p06110429bd70ef9e7f35@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040917191240.GR36708@green.homeunix.org> References: <16715.4611.108597.354107@piglet.timing.com> <20040917.130549.22012205.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040917191240.GR36708@green.homeunix.org>
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At 3:12 PM -0400 9/17/04, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: >On Fri, Sep 17, 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > >> OpenBSD's diff is much smaller than gnu's. It seems to use less >> memory as well for many operations. Its speed seems about the same. > > Most of these impressions are based on light testing, so YMMV. > >But seriously, is this better than ports/textproc/freegrep which >"should" have been the FreeBSD grep years ago? It's certainly better when it comes to doing diff's... :-) IIRC (and I may not), the main reason that grep isn't in the base system is that it was significantly slower in some situations. But my memory of that work is pretty fuzzy. In principle I think we should replace the grep, too, as long as the replacement works as well as the version we are currently using. The thing is, none of these replacements are "urgent" to get done, and they easily get forgotten about as more urgent projects pop up. [So says Garance, who is still trying to get around to replacing the `patch' in the base system with a BSD-licensed version...] -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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