Re: [grep] about 200 times slower than Sed or Perl

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 11:44:47 +0100
> From: Eduard Bloch <address@hidden>
> 
> today I tried to weed out some useles lines from a large log file and
> was amazed to see that the current grep versions (and fgrep) are
> slow like hell.

Thanks for publishing the results, but please give more information so
that others could look into the possible reasons of this.  Versions of
Grep, Perl, and Sed you used, as well as the size of the kern.log file
would be most useful.

TIA