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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2019-12-30 11:29:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2019-12-30 11:32:54 -0800 |
| commit | a90a9983d622a225fa28bcfa76c254a76dc4ab9e (patch) | |
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maint: update AUTHORS
* AUTHORS: Update to better reflect current authorship.
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@@ -6,16 +6,20 @@ Mike Haertel wrote the main program and the dfa and kwset matchers. +Isamu Hasegawa wrote the POSIX regular expression matcher, which is +part of the GNU C Library and is distributed as part of GNU grep for +use on non-GNU systems. Ulrich Drepper, Paul Eggert, Paolo Bonzini, +Stanislav Brabec, Assaf Gordon, Jakub Jelinek, Jim Meyering, Arnold +Robbins, Andreas Schwab and Florian Weimer also contributed to this +matcher. + Arthur David Olson contributed the heuristics for finding fixed substrings at the end of dfa.c. -Richard Stallman and Karl Berry wrote the regex backtracking matcher. - Henry Spencer wrote the original test suite from which grep's was derived. - Scott Anderson invented the Khadafy test. -David MacKenzie wrote the automatic configuration software use to +David MacKenzie wrote the automatic configuration software used to produce the configure script. Authors of the replacements for standard library routines are identified @@ -26,17 +30,16 @@ 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. -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. +Mike Haertel would like to thank Andrew Hume for many fascinating +discussions of string searching issues over the years. Hume and +Sunday's excellent paper on fast string searching 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. +"Tuned Boyer Moore" inner loop. See: Hume A, Sunday D. +Fast string searching. Software Pract Exper. 1991;21(11):1221-48. +https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380211105 +https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.13.9460&rep=rep1&type=pdf Arnold Robbins contributed to improve dfa.[ch]. In fact it came straight from gawk-3.0.3 with small editing and fixes. |