From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:57:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: do not do external grep on skip-worktree entries
Message-ID: <fc339e4a1001040757n31298f3h724eacfafb68c63e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001040659150.3630@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> And "perf record" followed by "perf report" on the internal one shows
> that it's not even regexec() - we use strstr() for the trivial case:

Does strstr use e.g. boyer-moore?  I imagine grep does...

-miles

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