Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!aiai!richard
From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Re: Truth in advertising.
Message-ID: <250@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Mar 89 17:50:22 GMT
References: <8903070438.AA02958@ANUBIS.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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>% time gegrep -c ^ /usr/dict/words

The version of gnu grep I have (1.2) decides whether it's grep or egrep
on the basis of the first character of the program name.  So gegrep is not
a good name.  

As to your actual question, it's hard to have an algorithm that's fastest
for all strings and files.  Has anyone has claimed otherwise?

-- Richard
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