"V. T. Mueller, Continum" <v.t.mueller_at_continum.net> writes: > If you're alluding to Dougs original email, I will strictly disagree. > He found a performance issue which noone had seen or brought up before > and gave feedback to Gabor in a constructive and distinctively polite > manner. It would have been far more "constructive and distinctively polite" to take ten minutes to build and run a profiling version of grep, and include the results in the OP. > I would also second, that changing back the default immediately then > would have been the better choice. No, it would only have ensured that nobody except Gabor used it. > In other words: as long as there are unresolved issues, the default > should be set to GNU grep. This doesn't stop anyone from improving the > BSD grep we're all waiting for. It only does good to those who rely on > using grep - expecting correctness and speed. Based on my 12 years of experience in this project, you are very, very wrong. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Thu Aug 19 2010 - 09:13:40 UTC
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