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Re:Ack is designed as a replacement for 99% of the uses of grep by jonathonf on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @06:24AM (#10893569)
I'm not sure how valid the comparison benchmark is:

  Ack and Ag found the same results, but Ag was 34x faster
  (3.2 seconds vs 110 seconds). My ~/code directory is about
  8GB. Thanks to git/hg/svn-ignore, Ag only searched 700MB of that.
Searching less data definitely is going to take less time!
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Re:Ack is designed as a replacement for 99% of the uses of grep by majewsky on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @10:06AM (#10894784)
Ack uses the same git/hg/svn-ignore heuristic.
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