jaw@nike.UUCP (James A. Woods) (09/24/86)
# "find a need and fill it" -- kaiser cement co. huzzahs to mr. anderson for an amazing egrep benchmark. for the record, on a 68020 box running bsd 4.3, the user time for egrep "M[ou]'?am+[ae]r .*([AEae]l[- ])?[GKQ]h?[aeu]+([dtz][dhz]?)+af[iy]" egad where file 'egad' is the posting itself, is 1.0 seconds using standard egrep, or 0.1 seconds using my own algorithm (w/help from boyer/moore and h. spencer). i can only add that since e?grep is now kanji-unix compatible, /usr/dict/web2 is hopefully again safe from terrorist attacks such as this. james a. woods (ames!jaw)