GNU bug report logs - #32073
Improvements in Grep

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Sergiu Hlihor <sh <at> discovergy.com>

Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 21:32:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Sergiu Hlihor <sh <at> discovergy.com>
Cc: 32073 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32073: Improvements in Grep (Bug#32073)
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 13:02:38 -0800

On 1/1/20 12:04 PM, Sergiu Hlihor wrote:

> That's why the best is to be application specific

That doesn't mean that one should have to modify every application. One could
instead modify the OS so that it uses different read-ahead heuristics for
different classes of applications. This should be easier to manage than
modifying every individual application.
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