Re: replacing grep(1)

[Daniel C. Sobral]

John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> 
> right now, I'm trying to think of a way to eliminate the fgetln searching
> for end of line... of course this would eliminate some of the simplicity
> of design, but we can get a BIG speed increase if we simply don't scan for
> the new line unless we NEED to...  and if we do, why not use regexec to
> search for us?

As Dillon said, the decrease in speed of the scan might not be that
great. On the other hand, a decent pattern matching algorithm *does
not* examine every character (which is why GNU grep performs so much
better with bigger patterns).

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