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ComputerGuru on Aug 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

I thought for a second this was one of my all-time favorites, which can also be summarized as "how is gnu grep so fast?" [0].

0: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.h...

tghw on Aug 24, 2016 | [–]

Came here to post exactly that article.

goldenkey on Aug 24, 2016 | [–]

That was great, thanks!

I am not so sure the 70/8 tradeoff is worth it but it should probably be tested with code samples as well as english corpuses. Is grep primarily made for ascii?

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