alt Hacker Newsconsidering that ripgrep has marginal overhead over just reading the files to /dev/null, how exactly does this achieve 100x speedup?
I have a lot of use for something that can search ~1GB of text "instantly", but so far nothing beats rg/ag after the data has been moved into RAM.
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Yokohiii • today at 8:44 AM
The crate says it uses SIMD, but the crate also says that content search is 20-50 times faster. Maybe the guy unsure how fast it is or how much speedup he should claim to get recognition.
The trick to optimization is not "doing faster" but "doing less". I already feel rg is missing a ton of results I want to see because it has a very large ignore list by default.