Hello,
A coworker implemented a system that spawns grep to rummage through a large log file. Apparently doing so is quite a bit faster than using a regex.
This is because grep is highly specialized and optimized. I was wondering if we could implement a grepping library that builds on regex's strengths and also grep's many optimization tricks: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html
Andrei
