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GNU Grep has its bad days

GNU Grep has its bad days

Posted Mar 19, 2010 12:16 UTC (Fri) by walles (guest, #954)
In reply to: Google's RE2 regular expression library by PO8
Parent article: Google's RE2 regular expression library

My experience isn't that grep is "pretty fast"; here's a bug report where both Ruby and Perl runs circles around Grep:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445215

This performance issue is one that I'd really like to see fixed, so if somebody would step up to fix it that would be great!


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