Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Sun Aug 15 17:17:27 UTC 2010


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Thompson" <thompsa at FreeBSD.org>
> On 15 August 2010 13:55, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Our default grep should be significantly slower than the old grep because:
>>
>> I think that new grep which is ____ times slower than the old grep is still
>> in the acceptable range.
> 
> 
> I think that new grep which is 1000 times slower than the old grep is
> still in the acceptable range.
> 
> Can we drop this now.

I assume your joking right? Either that or your never use grep day to day
so don't really care :(

    Regards
    Steve

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