I approve of @mikeymikey spreading that ripgrep
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Replying to @bruienne @mikeymikey
Should we start the immediately-devolving "rg vs. ag vs. sift" debate now or...?
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Ripgrep rocks.
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I'm a sift man myself.
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I gav a shoutout to both ag and rg I'll try sift for binary file search (which is why I was mentioning the other two) but I have my doubts it's performant
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Well that's always the main argument for all of them. You might be surprised. I find its context searching capabilites and on the fly file decompression are most useful.
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Replying to @JPoForenso @mikeymikey and
ripgrep do on the fly decompression. Sift's performance generally falls off a cliff with non-literal patterns.
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Replying to @burntsushi5 @mikeymikey and
Re: OTF decomp, your blog post says it doesn't. At any rate, my interest/usage is not based solely on performance of a singular function, rather a balance of speed with respect to feature set. If support for lookahead/behind + multi-line searches costs me more time, so be it.
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Thanks for the heads up on the blog post. It is outdated. Please refer to the project README.
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