@aras
And 2 minutes later: wait, why are some other tools an order of magnitude slower?? 🤔
@sheredom

@jon_valdes @sheredom the author has some quite cool details on the blog on what makes it fast. https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

@aras
Yeah, but, why.doesn't that blog post shame every other tool implementor into using those same techniques? If I was maintaining grep or ag, I wouldn't sleep until I was at least on the same ballpark in speed as rg 🤷
@sheredom

@jon_valdes @aras I mostly agree, but there are always tradeoffs. Like my JSON lib (https://github.com/sheredom/json.h) isn't as fast as some others, but it has a TON more functionality that requires significant extra branching. Might just be that tradeoff here? (but either way, use ripgrep its amazing).