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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
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> From: "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT havenone DOT cmm>
> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:36:54 -0400
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> "Rugxulo" <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com> wrote in message
> news:4c64a5b1-bf8a-49e1-843e-9a0594856e82 AT c36g2000yqm DOT googlegroups DOT com...
> >
> > P.S. I love GNU sed, but in my experience it's pretty darn
> > slow on big files.
> >
> 
> I've not used it.  I have need of VI, occasionally.  I prefer DOS EDIT, but
> it and other DOS editors seem unable to do two things that VI can do.

VI and EDIT are unrelated to Sed.  Sed is a _stream_ editor, it edits
files in batch mode, not interactively.  It is suitable for scripts
that need to edit text.

Sed's slowness is generally due to GNU regex library (assuming that is
used for building the DJGPP port).  In the past, building Sed with
DJGPP's native regex routines produced a much faster Sed.