"Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote: > > FWIW; > > The UNIX grep executable is like >3 times smaller than > GNU grep but also like 3 times slower.
I think that it's said in GNU grep readme: they have knowingly chosen a faster but more memory-consuming algorithm. And I think that they've done similar choices in the other tools as well. After all, we are not limited by a 64KB limit any more, are we ? :-) > Also .. JIC you wonder, I only built this for > curiosity, I recommend keeping GNU grep unless Caldera > changes the license :). Also the GNU grep has a lot more options, the most interesting of them being -r. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
