Re: What to learn from the BSD grep case [Was: why GNU grep is fast]

2010-08-23 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > 4, We really need a good regex library. From the comments, it seems there's > no such in the open source world. GNU libregex isn't efficient because GNU > grep uses those workarounds that Mike kindly pointed out. Oniguruma was > extremely sl

Re: What to learn from the BSD grep case [Was: why GNU grep is fast]

2010-08-23 Thread Scott Long
On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Hi all, > > there are some consequences that we can see from the grep case. Here I'd like > to add a summary, which raises some questions. All comments are welcome. > > 1, When grep entered -CURRENT and bugs were found I immediately got kind

What to learn from the BSD grep case [Was: why GNU grep is fast]

2010-08-23 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Hi all, there are some consequences that we can see from the grep case. Here I'd like to add a summary, which raises some questions. All comments are welcome. 1, When grep entered -CURRENT and bugs were found I immediately got kind bug reports and sharp criticism, as well. According to my u