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pixelbeat on Nov 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: GNU grep is 10x faster than Mac grep

I notice these Mac tools becoming a bit stale. sort is derived GNU sort, but from some ancient version. I guess this might be due in part to these tools now being GPLv3 ?

paxswill on Nov 28, 2012 | [–]

Almost certainly. Apple stopped updating their tools past the GPLv2 versions, with the most noticeable example being gcc, which was frozen at 4.2 until they removed it.

saurik on Nov 28, 2012 | [–]

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