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
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