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Date:      Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:42:11 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        tim@kientzle.com
Cc:        dougb@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, core@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org, gabor@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default
Message-ID:  <20100815.154211.338122493920752843.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <894C8953-7F2F-486F-8701-A3DFF65D7627@kientzle.com>
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In message: <894C8953-7F2F-486F-8701-A3DFF65D7627@kientzle.com>
            Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> writes:
: 
: On Aug 15, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote:
: 
: > On 15 Aug 2010, at 3:12, Doug Barton wrote:
: > 
: >> (And before anyone bothers to reply saying "Use pkg_info -O for that"
: >> I'll save you the trouble. My version is from 10-20% faster. Not sure
: >> why, don't really care.) :)
: > 
: > 
: > Congrats for beating the performance of a(nother) utility in base, but - regardless of whether you'd use it in that case - doesn't that just indicate that pkg_info could use some performance improvements as well?
: 
: http://libpkg.googlecode.com/
: 
: This is David Forsyth's GSoC project to build a standard library
: for managing the on-disk package database.
: 
: His pkg_info implementation built on this library is in fact
: a lot faster than what's currently in the tree.  He's starting
: to prototype pkg_delete and pkg_add on the new library
: but there's still a lot of work to do.

heh, maybe he needs to do work on an upgrader too. :)

Warner



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