Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>
> Jamie Howard (howar...@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.
> What's more, the code is actually possible for mere mortals to read
> and understand.
>
> The source code is available for download from freefall:
>
> <URL:http://www.freebsd.org/~des/software/grep-0.7.tar.gz>
>
> I move that we replace GNU grep in our source tree with this
> implementation, once it's been reviewed by all concerned parties.
I'm concerned about performance. Grep performance is relevant to
some. Now, while I don't care if this grep is slower than what we
are using right now, I do care if it's _complexity_ is greater.
So, please, could you make sure the algorithmic complexity is not
greater, either by benchmark comparision, or by examining the code?
I would do it, if I had time. But right now I don't, and there is no
need to keep this waiting.
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