Control: found -1 3.7-1 On 2014-09-11 10:12:35 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Between grep 2.18-2 and grep 2.20-3 (fixing bug 758105), there is a > huge slowdown when binary files (with invalid UTF-8 sequences) are > involved. The timings on my personal svn working copy (with all my > files), when searching for a word that doesn't exist (no matches): > > grep 2.18-2: 0.9 s > grep 2.20-3: 11.6 s > > Note: the -P is useless in this case, but it is useful in other cases.
The current grep version 3.7-1 is also affected. The upstream bug has been closed after the move to PCRE2. Once the new grep is available in Debian, some tests need to be done to see whether this change introduces any regression. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
