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		angusgr on March 31, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why GNU grep is fast It doesn't do that, and that's the first method I used in my hack. Fair enough. :) If you feel like sharing then I'm very curious as to what the additional methods were.

DarkShikari on March 31, 2011 [–]

It was a total hack, so I just opened files ahead of time, fadvised them, then closed them.

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