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idutils support

by Edward Peschko :: Rate this Message:

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All,

When going through the id utils 'past and future' section, I noticed
the following items:

Future releases of idutils might include:

    - an optional coupling with GNU grep, so that grep can use an ID
database for hints

    - a cscope work-alike query interface

    - incremental update of the ID database.

Now, I love grep's interface, but on large datasets it is agonizingly slow,
since it redoes all the work of matching every single time the
underlying files are read.

Has there been any work/talk with the idutils team towards providing
the optional
coupling talked about in #1, or is the grep team satisfied with the
boundaries of
where it exists as a project?

Ed



Re: idutils support

by Edward Peschko :: Rate this Message:

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btw - a FYI - I have also tried to contact the idutils team,
but it seems to have very little signs of life
(last update - 2006, mailing list has had a total
of 20 posts over the last 3 years.

Ed

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Edward Peschko<horos11@...> wrote:

> All,
>
> When going through the id utils 'past and future' section, I noticed
> the following items:
>
> Future releases of idutils might include:
>
>    - an optional coupling with GNU grep, so that grep can use an ID
> database for hints
>
>    - a cscope work-alike query interface
>
>    - incremental update of the ID database.
>
> Now, I love grep's interface, but on large datasets it is agonizingly slow,
> since it redoes all the work of matching every single time the
> underlying files are read.
>
> Has there been any work/talk with the idutils team towards providing
> the optional
> coupling talked about in #1, or is the grep team satisfied with the
> boundaries of
> where it exists as a project?
>
> Ed
>