python vs. grep

[Robert Kern]

Alan Isaac wrote:
> Anton Slesarev wrote:
>> I've read great paper about generators:
>> http://www.dabeaz.com/generators/index.html Author say that it's easy 
>> to write analog of common linux tools such as awk,grep etc. He say 
>> that performance could be even better. But I have some problem with 
>> writing performance grep analog. 
> 
> https://svn.enthought.com/svn/sandbox/grin/trunk/

As the author of grin I can definitively state that it is not at all competitive 
with grep in terms of speed. grep reads files really fast. awk is probably 
beatable, though.

-- 
Robert Kern

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