Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I have to wonder, though...did anybody ever actually profile our > internal grep to find out _why_ it was so much slower than GNU grep? I vaguely recall that somebody fairly competent mentioned that modern grep implementations are based on DFA engines, but I offhand don't remember if the discussion had concrete numbers. > Could we simply ship a better grep engine and obsolete external grep? Yes, that is a very constructive longer term solution. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html