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A fast and powerful alternative to grep

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2015-09-14 · latest 2018-06-26

Mentions per year 7 mentions · busiest year 2015 (4)
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  1. …[3] - https://github.com/gvansickle/ucg/blob/master/src/libext/Dir... [4] - https://github.com/svent/sift/blob/2ca94717ef0bbf43068f217c8... [5] - https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher/blob...
    comment by burntsushi · 2018-06-26 · in Examples of Parallel Algorithms from C++17
  2. …I normally use a different Golang tool called sift as my grep replacement (which I love so far): https://github.com/svent/sift Sift's goals seem to be mostly performance (it is super fast), but it would be nice to have some of these more…
    comment by ereyes01 · 2018-06-05 · in Show HN: Grep with colours written in Go
  3. …a new release in a day or two. Also, it looks like the sift author is getting on the .ignore train: https://github.com/svent/sift/issues/78#issuecomment-2493352... This worked out pretty well. :)
  4. Monster function in the implementation https://github.com/svent/sift/blob/master/matching.go#L28
    comment by andrewchambers · 2015-11-05 · in Sift: Grep on steroids
  5. This [github issue comment]( https://github.com/svent/sift/issues/7#issuecomment-14469087... ) hinted on the possible reason of sift's speed.
    comment by brunosutic · 2015-11-05 · in Sift: Grep on steroids
  6. …sift slower than ag from 5 to 20 times (though probably faster than grep and/or ack). EDIT2: https://github.com/svent/sift/issues/7 - about benchmarks. Maybe numbers are true, but they are done in rather specific conditions, with specific…
    comment by trymas · 2015-11-04 · in Sift: Grep on steroids
  7. And where's the source? Edit: Here it is: https://github.com/svent/sift