Bug 445215 is about egrep being a ton slower than doing the same thing in PERL.
Bug 450649 is about egrep spending 50% of its time clearing memory using a for() loop rather than memset(). There's obviously some kind of relationship between these issues :-). Regards //Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]