Why fgrep?

[Paul De Bra]

In article <1050 at naucse.UUCP> sbw at naucse.UUCP (Steve Wampler) writes:
>In every machine I've played with, fgrep has never
>performed better than plain old grep for any data I've given
>it (and on some machines, it is *considerably* slower).
>...
>
>Just curious.

No big deal I would say:
I did a short comparison by searching for a fixed 6 character string in
a bunch of C-files.
grep took 10 times longer than gre, and fgrep took 14 times longer than gre...
too bad gre is not PD I believe...

Paul.
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