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Re:Make grep 50x faster by ye on Sunday December 15, 2013 @01:40PM (#6910289)
Not only that, the search branches are sitting in the CPU caches.
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Re:Make grep 50x faster by pygy_ on Sunday December 15, 2013 @02:50PM (#6910567)
Wouldn't the cache be flushed by the OS and other background processes, in the mean time, plus the display updates in the shell and the shell history?
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