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feature: parallel grep --recursive

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Message #14 received at 60506 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Paul Jackson" <pj <at> usa.net>
To: "Paul Eggert" <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 60506 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60506: feature: parallel grep --recursive
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2023 20:56:23 -0600

<< a parallel grep to search a single large file >>

I'm but one user, and a rather idiosyncratic user at that,
but for my usage patterns, the specialized logic that it
would take to run a parallelized grep on a large file
would likely not shrink the elapsed time enough to justify
the coding, documentation, and maintenance effort.

I would expect the time to read the large file in from disk to
dominate the total elapsed time in any case.

(or maybe I am just jealous that I didn't think of that parallel
grep use case myself <grin>.)

-- 
                Paul Jackson
                pj <at> usa.net

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