Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:49:53 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@yes.no> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replacing grep(1) Message-ID: <19990727184953.B391@forty-two.egroups.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpd7xeb9xc.fsf@des.follo.net>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:37:35PM %2B0200 References: <xzpd7xeb9xc.fsf@des.follo.net>
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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
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