Hm, there seems to be written like so there: > Moreover, GNU grep AVOIDS BREAKING THE INPUT INTO LINES. Looking for newlines would slow grep down by a factor

Hm, there seems to be written like so there: > Moreover, GNU grep AVOIDS BREAKING THE INPUT INTO LINES. Looking for newlines would slow grep down by a factor of several times, because to find the newlines it would have to look at every byte! (italics added, but uppercase original!) On my reading this sounds quite huge; I seem to understand the gist is that it's still a significant gain after Boyer-Moore. But, whatever.