On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:37:35PM +0200, 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. > > 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:gsut...@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
