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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-09-01 22:34:52 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-09-01 22:35:06 -0700
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grep: update NEWS
* NEWS: Describe previous change.
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@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*-
grep -iF is typically much faster in a multibyte locale, if the
pattern and its case counterparts contain only single byte characters.
+ grep with complicated expressions (e.g., back-references) and without
+ -i now uses the regex fastmap for better performance.
+
In multibyte locales, grep now handles leading "." in patterns more
efficiently.