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Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by burntsushi on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:39PM (#12567770)
I can't think of any particular piece that requires Rust specifically for performance, no. The real beauty of Rust is that I was able to achieve this performance in the first place, all with very very little use of unsafe (even in the regex engine itself).

But of course, as we all know, performance isn't everything. Even ripgrep itself accepts a performance penalty in its default mode of operation, in order to improve the relevance of results shown.

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Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by sidlls on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:58PM (#12567900)
Yes, that was my main point, re: safety. I've been implementing a BLAS with Rust (pure Rust--not FFI wrappers around C-wrappers around Fortan or other bindings) and it has been interesting to see where the C-programmer in me gets tripped up and how the performance compares.
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