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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/grep/AUTHORS b/gnu/usr.bin/grep/AUTHORS index e3e033b..65ff8a1 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/grep/AUTHORS +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/grep/AUTHORS @@ -20,10 +20,22 @@ non-matching text before calling the regexp matcher was originally due to James Woods. He also contributed some code to early versions of GNU grep. -Finally, I would like to thank Andrew Hume for many fascinating discussions +Mike Haertel would like to thank Andrew Hume for many fascinating discussions of string searching issues over the years. Hume & Sunday's excellent paper on fast string searching (AT&T Bell Laboratories CSTR #156) describes some of the history of the subject, as well as providing exhaustive performance analysis of various implementation alternatives. The inner loop of GNU grep is similar to Hume & Sunday's recommended "Tuned Boyer Moore" inner loop. + +More work was done on regex.[ch] by Ulrich Drepper and Arnold +Robbins. Regex is now part of GNU C library, see this package +for complete details and credits. + +Arnold Robbins contributed to improve dfa.[ch]. In fact +it came straight from gawk-3.0.3 with small editing and fixes. + +Many folks contributed see THANKS, if I omited someone please +send me email. + +Alain Magloire is the current maintainer. |