Chris Pinnock wrote:
> Off the top of my head, othersrc grep uses always tries to use mmap.            
> GNU grep will always use read unless you give it --mmap. 

Probably red herring then (i.e. the number of page faults
doesn't really mean it would be slower). Might be interesting
to compare GNU grep --map vs. your grep, if there is any difference.

Jaromir
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