Re: [bug #23321] Epsclosure speedup patch

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Johan Walles wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #1, bug #23321 (project grep):
>
> The just attached file shows grep benchmark results.  I got the patterns file
> by doing:
>
> cat /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation > /tmp/ignore
>
> The numbers show the startup time for grep with about 2500 regexps read from
> a file (logcheck does this every hour) is:
> Plain 2.5.3    : 68.0s
> CALLOC patch   : 24.2s
> int->char patch:  5.8s
>
> Adding 10000 lines of input (my /var/log/daemon.0 log file) doesn't change
> the numbers much:
> Plain 2.5.3    : 70.4s
>
> Both CALLOC and
> int->char patch:  5.7s

The numbers look very promising. Thanks Johan. The CALLOC line is 
already in the latest source in the CVS. If no one objects in the next 
few days, the int->char change will be applied.

If you find similar (or other) inefficiencies in the code, I will 
happily apply correcting patches.

Cheers,

TAA

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