> And getting back to the hardware aspect, having a single thread and a badass SIMD instruction is usually faster and easier to reason about than multiple threa

> And getting back to the hardware aspect, having a single thread and a badass SIMD instruction is usually faster and easier to reason about than multiple threads and general-purpose instructions where your performance gets fetch-execute-cache-hierarchy-memory-bandwidthed to death. ripgrep benefits from both having multiple threads and badass SIMD instructions.