On 2 June 2013 18:15, Florent Peterschmitt <flor...@peterschmitt.fr> wrote: > Le 02/06/2013 14:16, Chris Rees a écrit : >> On 2 June 2013 11:41, Eduardo Morras <emorr...@yahoo.es> wrote: >>> On Fri, 31 May 2013 15:01:59 +0100 >>> Chris Rees <utis...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I think I've discovered a strange behaviour of sed perhaps triggered >>>> by the length of a regex passed to it. I noticed that a certain >>>> expression I passed took a very long time, and suspected the usual >>>> backtracking loop, so I started trimming it... and discovered this: >>>> >>>> [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne "s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,," >>>> /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 >>>> 4.699u 0.007s 0:04.70 99.7% 40+2733k 0+0io 0pf+0w >>>> [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne "s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/po,," >>>> /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 >>>> 0.042u 0.000s 0:00.04 100.0% 48+3216k 0+0io 0pf+0w >>>> >>>> I've looked at the code, and can't from a brief glance figure out why >>>> a slightly longer regex makes such a difference-- does it start to >>>> split it? >>> >>> Perhaps second one uses memory cache data? Run both twice and show us the >>> second times. >>> >> >> Nope, same. >> >> [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne "s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,," >> /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 >> 4.703u 0.007s 0:04.85 96.9% 40+2732k 210+0io 0pf+0w >> [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne "s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,," >> /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 >> 4.748u 0.007s 0:04.75 99.7% 40+2732k 0+0io 0pf+0w >> >> I also get the same on head; >> >> [crees@medusa]~% time sed -ne "s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,," >> /var/db/pkg/INDEX-10 >> 7.813u 0.015s 0:07.96 98.2% 40+183k 0+0io 0pf+0w >> [crees@medusa]~% time sed -ne "s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/po,," >> /var/db/pkg/INDEX-10 >> 0.070u 0.000s 0:00.07 100.0% 45+205k 0+0io 0pf+0w >> [crees@medusa]~% uname -a >> FreeBSD medusa 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r250009: Thu May >> 30 10:11:16 BST 2013 root@medusa:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEDUSA >> amd64 >> >> Chris > > Yes I tried too on -current. And I tried also on GNU/Linux and there > isn't this problem. Is it gnu or bsd sed ? >
BSD sed, GNU sed doesn't show this; [crees@pegasus]/usr/ports/textproc/gsed% time gsed -ne "s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,," /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 0.019u 0.009s 0:00.04 25.0% 408+6132k 1+0io 2pf+0w Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
