Try "grep --line-buffered" to get grep to flush output after every line. There is a performance penalty for doing this. I don't know why you don't see the buffering when grep's stdout isn't redirected. Perhaps grep (or the std library) removes/reduces buffering in the case the output is a terminal.
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