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From: tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper)
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Subject: Re: Minor incompatibility between Cnews and A/UX (possible Cnews bug)
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.011827.3562@am.dsir.govt.nz>
Date: 27 Jun 91 01:18:27 GMT
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In article <1991Jun26.151645.888@panix.uucp>, alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis
Rosen) writes:
|> BTW, how good is Gnu's grep, compared to the standard SVR2.2?

% timex fgrep zzzzz /FILES

real        0.28
user        0.06
sys         0.20

% timex /usr/bin/fgrep zzzzz /FILES

real        2.46
user        2.13
sys         0.21

(all files cached in RAM). And there's no need to ask which is the GNU fgrep
and which is the SVR2 one, right?

Cheers,
Tony