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Re: [bug-idutils] id utils integration with grep
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-idutils] id utils integration with grep |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:28:09 +0200 |
Edward Peschko wrote:
> When going through the id utils 'past and future'
> section, I noticed the following items:
>
> Future releases of idutils might include:
>
> - an optional coupling with GNU grep, so that grep
> can use an ID database for hints
>
> - a cscope work-alike query interface
>
> - incremental update of the ID database.
>
> Now, I love grep's interface, but on large datasets it is
> agonizingly slow, since it redoes all the work of
> matching every single time the underlying files are read.
>
> Has there been any work/talk with the grep team
> towards providing the optional coupling talked about
> in #1, or have these efforts/ideas been abandoned?
As far as I know, no one is working on this.