On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, David Schultz wrote: > dds@ has expressed some interest in compiling the FSMs for regexps > into native code, which would make it blazingly fast. See [EMAIL PROTECTED] > As a practical matter, there are only a couple of zealots who care > what kind of license grep is under, so replacing GNU grep with > something that's ``almost as good as GNU grep'' is a regression IMO. > If we were talking about a kernel module or library, of course, that > would be a different matter.
Let me clarify. As far as I have been able to find out, the big hold-out on not considering FreeGrep was that it was too slow. I got the time to be comparable. Reasons to consider for switching: 1. GNU's grep -r option "is broken" according to the following post. The only thing I have noticed is that FreeGrep has more options for controlling how symbolic links are traversed. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&selm=xzp7kchblor.fsf_flood.ping.uio.no%40ns.sol.net 2. GNU's grep is using libgnuregex. The speed-up by dds@ would not be felt? 3. FreeGrep gives one less thing for zealots to complain about. :) Sean ----------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
