Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 08:37:34 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Smith A. Cat" <imbe AT primenet DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: sed 2.05
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On 23 May 1997, Smith A. Cat wrote:

> or does somebody know of a problem with 2.05 (with "rx")??

Sed 2.05 is approximately 50% slower that 1.18, and is known to
crash in some cases (due to bugs in the early version of rx it uses).
It also gobs preposterous amounts of memory in some rare cases (like
the long scripts generated when the DJGPP FAQ is built from Texinfo
sources): I once measured its memory consumption to be in excess of
11MBytes (!) which makes it page to disk on a lot of machines.  I
don't recommend using Sed 2.05, since 1.18 does its job very well
indeed.  Newer version doesn't always mean a better product.

Sed 2.05 was not included in DJGPP v2 because of the above reasons.