On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 03:27:20PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > it was VERY simple to do... and attached is the patch... this uses the > > option REG_STARTEND to do what the copy was trying to do... all of the > > code to use REG_STARTEND was already there, it just needed to be enabled.. > > Funnily, I experience a near-doubling of running time with similar > patches.
Strange... His patches made grep on my system much faster than the original 0.10 and almost as fast as GNU grep. b$ /usr/bin/time ./grep-10 -e printer longfile > /dev/null 1.16 real 0.97 user 0.19 sys b$ /usr/bin/time ./grep-10-jmg -e printer longfile > /dev/null 0.48 real 0.43 user 0.04 sys b$ /usr/bin/time grep -e printer longfile > /dev/null 0.28 real 0.09 user 0.18 sys This is one of the original Celerons, FWIW. Once-in-a-while that gives me performance numbers somewhat different from any other Intel. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message