From: Garrett Mitchener <wgm2@acpub.duke.edu>
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  Date: 03 Mar 1999 21:42:51 -0500

Re: tip: fast reads for goof(i)

As a side note, in the past, people have sometimes written these
indexing programs so they create an index file that is orders of
magnitude larger than the original text.  The resulting program takes
longer to read in the log that it would to search through all the text
files again.  If you're going to go for speed, make sure that your
program is at least as fast as grep.  (try man grep).

	-- Garrett :-)