Re: grep extremely slow on OSX

[Titus von der Malsburg]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Can you try with 2.5.4 on Linux, but configuring with --with-included-regex?

Then it takes 19min.  When I do the same on OSX it takes again 12 min.

Does this mean that the Berkley implementation of regex on OSX is
crappy and that grep therefore uses it's own engine?  Is there a way
to build grep with the GNU engine on OSX?

Thanks for your help

  Titus