I'm using win32 gvim70f. If I use the externan Cygwin grep grep -i -r vimgrep .
it returns the results in under a second. :vimgrep vimgrep ** takes about 20 seconds. On 4/26/06, Benji Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:03:26AM -0600, Eric Arnold wrote: > > Am I doing something wrong, or is :vimgrep about 10x slower than a > > shell grep? > > I have not tested, but I assume that there is less overhead in > calling :vimgrep (internal) than the external grep. I would not be > surprised if the internal function is slower on big jobs, and that this > eventually eats up the advantage of lower overhead. Still, 10x seems > surprising. Can you give a test case, perhaps in the vim source > directory? What is your OS? > > HTH --Benji Fisher >
