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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:40:54 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port tools speed
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> I took some more timings after some correspondance with
> bug-grep@gnu.org. I do recall gnu grep was twice as fast as p9p grep
> when given a plain ascii environment, but I haven't kept other results.
>
> I don't know if the gnu grep maintainers are looking for a fix, or even
> if they consider this extreme slowness a problem at all. It didn't sound
> like it when I corresponded with them, but I guess that could simply
> mean they didn't want to discuss it.

i went so far as to send a patch.  it was ignored.

- erik