News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why GNU grep is fast (2010). Parent comment

Re:Why GNU grep is fast (2010) by spacesuitman2 on Friday March 29, 2019 @12:29PM (#19523104)
For all my searches so far, ripgrep is about 30-100x faster. Perhaps you're on some hardware which ripgrep isn't well suited for.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why GNU grep is fast (2010) by rujuladanh on Friday March 29, 2019 @05:34PM (#19525878)
That is simply impossible.

You are measuring the wrong thing or a case where rg can skip most files.

[ Parent | on HN ]