Probably not even close. (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug

Probably not even close. (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Augu...) grep/sed/awk are highly specialized programs optimized to do one thing very well. A tool like this one might pick for reasons other than performance perhaps (maybe you're a Ruby programmer and can't grok grep/sed/awk?)