Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:18:47 +0200
"M. Warner Losh" <imp_at_bsdimp.com> writes:
> So making it default turned out well in the end.  Sure, there was pain
> involved (but this is current), but making it default exposed the pain
> that would otherwise have gone unnoticed.  The big hue and cry, while
> excessive at times, did result in people actually running the
> profiling tools which pointed to the buffering as the number one thing
> to fix.

There is a lesson here: people who are unsatisfied with the performance
of ${TOOL} should profile it before they start a flamefest on -current.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no
Received on Thu Aug 19 2010 - 07:18:48 UTC

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