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Re: grep as a library?
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Albert Chin |
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Re: grep as a library? |
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Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:16:51 -0600 |
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:48:20PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> It would be useful to have the main functionality of the "grep" program
> in a GPLed library. The GNU gettext program "msggrep" needs to call grep
> hundreds of times for a given 100 KB input file, and users complain that
> it is slow. It would be faster if msggrep could use a library. It is
> irrelevant whether this library is installed as a shared library, or if
> its source code is included in gnulib.
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