Any Linux admins willing to try Pygrep?

• pygrep

  2 0 8.3 Python

  python string and regex search

• the_silver_searcher

  59 25,720 0.0 C

  A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

We're fans of ag, The Silver Searcher.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• ack3

  21 669 4.3 Perl

  ack is a grep-like search tool optimized for source code.

  

fyi ack is like this but for perl instead of python https://beyondgrep.com/

• xsv

  64 10,080 0.0 Rust

  A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.

Unrelated, are you the same burntsushi that wrote xsv?

• genSQL

  3 1 3.0 Python

  A SQL generator tool to create random rows for test schemas

Oh yes, absolutely. I ran into a similar problem with a project I'm working on, and I had a conditional that would only import numpy if it already existed. Then again, mine wasn't something you'd call all the time, so the slowdown was worth it. Ultimately, I wound up using a C library to allocate the array (and to shuffle the ints), but it's worth noting that this is an array of uint32_t, and I'm not performing any regexes on them.

• hyperfine

  74 19,874 8.2 Rust

  A command-line benchmarking tool

It's vitally important that you make tests on small changes, and also have consistent testing methodology - same file and search parameters from one run to the next. I personally like using hyperfine to call the Python script, but anything should work. Also, if you're testing this on a laptop, it needs to be plugged in (and the CPU power management tuned for max performance when on wall power), and not too hot - thermal throttling can kill test results.

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