Re: replacing grep(1)

[Tim Vanderhoek]

On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 07:05:57PM -0400, James Howard wrote:
> 
> <warning type="Anything said here wrong is my fault, not DES's">
> 
> DES tells me he has a new version (0.10) which mmap()s.  It supposedly
> cuts the run time down significantly, I do not have the numbers in front
> of me.

I do.  Still far too slow.  I'll work on this tomorrow, since that
seems the only way to convince people that mmap is not such a big
win.  :-(

Hmm...  Maybe I'll even turn-out to be wrong.  ;-)  I really believe
mmap falls into the category of "might be nice, but not necessary and
does complicate things..."


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