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Bug 150417 - eutils.eclass:unpack_makeself() should use perl regex instead of grep
Summary: eutils.eclass:unpack_makeself() should use perl regex instead of grep
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Eclasses (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High enhancement
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2006-10-07 14:40 UTC by kalium
Modified: 2006-10-07 14:47 UTC (History)
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Description kalium 2006-10-07 14:40:43 UTC 
Grepping large files takes a lot of CPU time. Using perl's regular expressions is INSANELY much faster than using grep's ones.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-10-07 14:47:31 UTC 
And obviously everyone who hasn't compiled grep w/ pcre will gets screwed, huh?