Hi all, I think I've discovered a strange behaviour of sed perhaps triggered by the length of a regex passed to it. I noticed that a certain expression I passed took a very long time, and suspected the usual backtracking loop, so I started trimming it... and discovered this:
[crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne "s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,," /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 4.699u 0.007s 0:04.70 99.7% 40+2733k 0+0io 0pf+0w [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne "s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/po,," /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 0.042u 0.000s 0:00.04 100.0% 48+3216k 0+0io 0pf+0w I've looked at the code, and can't from a brief glance figure out why a slightly longer regex makes such a difference-- does it start to split it? Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
