From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 27 18:53: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from forty-two.egroups.net (teapot.findmail.com [206.16.70.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6653814F59 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:53:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@forty-two.egroups.net) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by forty-two.egroups.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) id SAA35115; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:49:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:49:53 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replacing grep(1) Message-ID: <19990727184953.B391@forty-two.egroups.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:37:35PM +0200 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:37:35PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Jamie Howard (howardjp@wam.umd.edu), with a little help from yours > truly, has written a BSD-licensed version of grep(1) which has all the > functionality of our current (GPLed) implementation, plus a little > more, in one seventh the source code and one fourth the binary code. > > I move that we replace GNU grep in our source tree with this > implementation, once it's been reviewed by all concerned parties. This implementation's performance on large files will have to be radically improved before it is an adequate substitute for GNU grep. One-seventh the source and one-fourth the binary is great, as long as it has full functionality. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Mostly Harmless mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message