bug#32073: Improvements in Grep

[Dennis Clarke]

On 07/06/2018 06:06 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Sergiu Hlihor wrote:
> > Given my tests for such scenarios, a read block size of at least
> > 512KB would be way more efficient.
>
> Does stdio do this already? If not, why not? How could grep reasonably 
> configure a good block size?

This seems to be a very specific complaint which is only of value on a
very specific system and usage case.  There is no way that grep could
configure a "good block size" unless it were tailor built.  Doesn't
seem to be a reasonable RFE.  In my opinion.

Dennis