Ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift} (2016)

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  • ugrep

    NEW ugrep 5.1: an ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep. Ugrep combines the best features of other grep, adds new features, and searches fast. Includes a TUI and adds Google-like search, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches nested archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and more

  • ripgrep

    ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

    I wrote the blog post before ugrep came out.

    But I ran the benchmarks in the blog post a few months ago and included ugrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/benchsuite...

    The full set of raw commands executed: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/benchsuite...

    I've also contested ugrep's benchmarks in a few ways and have had unproductive conversations with ugrep's author: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/i6pfb2/ugrep_new_ultr...

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