> I took some more timings after some correspondance with > [email protected]. I do recall gnu grep was twice as fast as p9p grep > when given a plain ascii environment, but I haven't kept other results. > > I don't know if the gnu grep maintainers are looking for a fix, or even > if they consider this extreme slowness a problem at all. It didn't sound > like it when I corresponded with them, but I guess that could simply > mean they didn't want to discuss it.
i went so far as to send a patch. it was ignored. - erik
