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Likely not as fast as with a grep written in C, but FreeBSD's grep is (was?) pretty slow compared to the GNU version and nobody really cares (read: it's probabl
by teamhappy 11y ago
Likely not as fast as with a grep written in C, but FreeBSD's grep is (was?) pretty slow compared to the GNU version and nobody really cares (read: it's probably fast enough).
- steveklabnik 11y agoThere shouldn't be any theoretical reason that a Rust grep should be slower than a C grep. In practice, a rust grep would be a new code base, and the existing grep has seen a lot of development over years.