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Re:Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office do... by wdkrnls on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @10:45PM (#41575232)
How does this compare with ugrep? I know that does many of these things while sticking with C++.
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Re:Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office do... by pdpi on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @11:45PM (#41575567)
Ugrep seems to be a completely new codebase, whereas RGA is a layer on top of ripgrep. Based on the benchmarks on the ripgrep github repo, rg is a bit better than 7x faster than ugrep.
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