Re: Re: Searching large files before browser timeout

[sierrathedog04]

Having UNIX grep rather than Perl grep do the searching would usually slow your program down. Perl grep is usually faster than UNIX's grep but slower than UNIX's egrep. Of course, YYMV.

[Davious]

Hmm, well in my case it was blindingly faster. Keep in mind I wasn't searching for anything more complicated than a fixed string (ie: '127.0.0.1') not a regexp or anything of that nature.