On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Christopher Weimann wrote: > There is at least one aspect of freegrep that doesn't even come > close to GNU grep, fgrep.
I just added fgrep handling. It better be slower. :) At least it will now try a faster method on the patterns before hitting the regex library. It is still slow. > I ran both of these more than once so it is not a fluke. After > looking at it further it seems that freegrep does not use the > Aho-Corasick algorithim for fgrep but just uses brute force. Yes, it uses brute force. I am considering either Aho-Corasick, Commentz-Walter (used in GNU fgrep) or the Boyer-Moore variation used in Glimpse and an older agrep. The last algorithm is supposedly the fastest, but I do not know if these algorithms are patent-free or not. > I wonder how many of the other old utils outrun our modern ones. > I guess it must be all those gotos. :) Better than a lot of gosubs. :) Sean ----------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"