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saagarjha on March 29, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

FWIW GNU's tools tend to be much larger and more complicated that competing versions of the same command.

0xbadcafebee on March 29, 2019 [–]

That's natural when you try to support a standard, are multi-platform, and have extra features.

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