Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

[Doug Barton]

On 08/16/2010 03:42, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2010-08-15 21:49, Dimitry Andric wrote:
>> ...I
>> have attached a more complete patch that:
>>
>> - Replaces the horrendously inefficient grep_fgetln() with mostly the
>>    same implementation as the libc fgetln() function.
>> - Uses plain file descriptors instead of struct FILE, since the
>>    buffering is done manually anyway, and it makes it easier to support
>>    gzip and bzip2.
>> - Let the bzip2 reader just read the file as plain data, when the
>>    initial magic number doesn't match, mimicking the behaviour of GNU
>>    grep.
>
> Here is a new patch, updated against Gabor's changes in r211364.

Huge improvement!

r211364:			With your patch:

./grep-time-trial
GNU grep
Elapsed time: 2 seconds

BSD grep			BSD grep
Elapsed time: 33 seconds	Elapsed time: 16 seconds

./grep-time-trial-2
GNU grep
Elapsed time: 3 seconds
	
BSD grep			BSD grep
Elapsed time: 18 seconds	Elapsed time: 11 seconds


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