GNU sed 4.3 released (lists.gnu.org)

32 points by kasabali 9y ago ↗ HN

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  ** Improvements
    sed's regular expression matching is now typically 10x faster

    sed now uses unlocked-io where available, resulting in faster I/O
    operations.

snowwindwaves 9y ago ↗

Fixes a bug introduced between 1998 and 2002 (between the last 3.x and first 4.x). Someone somewhere presumably has written a sed script working around the bug for 15 years!