Re: Regarding grep performacne 2.5.1

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Hi Ritesh,

It is normal for grep execution time to increase as the number or
complexity of patterns increases.

The latest version of grep is 2.5.3 which includes numerous bug fixes. I
would recommend upgrading to the latest version.

Cheers,

TAA

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On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Ritesh Mittal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using grep 2.5.1 windows based code in my application. I simply set the
> search pattern(s) (seperated by \n)  to the grep and apply grep continuously
> on buffer of 4KB. I have observed that when i increases the size of search
> pattern(s) (means I increases the number of search pattern) grep's
> performance degrades and grep takes more time to search the string.
>
> Can you help me in identifying the reason that wether its a normal grep
> behaviour or its some bug in Grep 2.5.1 version or might be fault in my
> code.
>
> Regards,
> Ritesh Mittal
>