Thanks very much for looking into this. I'll take a look at it in more detail
once the paperwork goes through. I use grep -r a lot, and would appreciate the
speedup.
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Aaron Crane wrote:
Zev Weiss wrote:
At a high level: I've added a new flag, -M/--parallel[=N], that
enables multithreaded operation.
Thanks, this looks really interesting.
I'd like to suggest changing the code to use -j/--jobs as the name for
the rel
Zev Weiss wrote:
> Hmm -- I picked --parallel largely for consistency with the corresponding
> flag for coreutils' sort, which strikes me as a closer relative to grep than
> either make or parallel.
That's a good point; I wasn't aware of sort's --parallel option.
Though I also note that "sort --p
Zev Weiss wrote:
> At a high level: I've added a new flag, -M/--parallel[=N], that
> enables multithreaded operation.
Thanks, this looks really interesting.
I'd like to suggest changing the code to use -j/--jobs as the name for
the relevant option; that would match both GNU Make and GNU parallel
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 12:04:11PM +0100, Aaron Crane wrote:
Zev Weiss wrote:
Hmm -- I picked --parallel largely for consistency with the corresponding
flag for coreutils' sort, which strikes me as a closer relative to grep than
either make or parallel.
That's a good point; I wasn't aware of
