Re: grep slows to a crawl

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 08:03:03 -0700
> 
> The grep hits are added to the *grep* buffer quickly at first, and then
> progressively slower. With a buffer of, say, 3800 hits, the display is fast
> enough for the first 2/3, then gets slower and slower, until the last few
> lines are displayed with maybe 0.5 sec interval between them.
> 
>     Can you post some timing information for sample
>     commands?
> 
> I don't know how to do that.

You just did (above).

>     Alternatively, please try using the native build of Grep (from
>     GnuWin32 site), and see if this problem goes away.  Then we will know
>     for sure it has something to do with Cygwin.
> 
> I don't know how to do that.

You mean, you don't know how to download a zip file and unzip it?  I'd
be surprised if you meant that.