In January, Pedro Giffuni started a thread about replacing GNU's grep in the system. Interestingly, I did not know about the grep thread on hackers until later. James Howard had interjected in February with mention that he had gotten patches to speed up freegrep. I had sent him those patches in late January, but I have not heard from him since. Hopefully, he is OK and just busy.
I have placed the patches up on Geocities� for others to try out. They get freegrep fairly close to the performance of GNU's grep. Also included is a small patch to regex to squeak a bit more performance out of it, but I am not certain if it actually helps or not. BTW, Postgres is using a newer version of the regex library--swiped from TCL--that FreeBSD uses. It supports multibyte characters. Is it time for an update? � http://www.geocities.com/sean_farley/ Sean P.S. Please Cc me as I am not on the list. ----------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
