Re: Why does not rgrep use "grep -r"?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:59:28 +0100
> What sense is there in using commands doing something quite different?
> The first searches all files, the second just a subset.

That's a typo: the --include argument got deleted somehow from the
mail.  Both commands were searching the same files.

> > That's 11%, a much smaller gain, and in the other direction.
> 
> How is this the other direction?  You mean the other direction from your
> first test rather than the test using GNU/Linux?

Yes, with warm cache Grep was faster, with cold cache it's the other
way around.