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Re:Notepad++ is 21 years old by SoftTalker on Friday November 01, 2024 @10:30PM (#42023630)
Why is that? Does it build an index so later searches are fast?
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Re:Notepad++ is 21 years old by petepete on Saturday November 02, 2024 @12:49AM (#42024140)
No, I just think every last part of ripgrep has had the shit optimised out of it.

Plus it's written in rust and as we know, it's blazingly fast.

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Re:Notepad++ is 21 years old by burntsushi on Saturday November 02, 2024 @06:59AM (#42025563)
No. I've written about why: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

That blog is eight years old now, but still pretty accurate.

For more details at the level of the regex engine, see: https://github.com/BurntSushi/rebar

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