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The problem is that isn't how things are indexed, so "grep the web" is a hard problem. Grep on your machine just scans through every byte, doesn't care how lon
by wvenable 8y ago
The problem is that isn't how things are indexed, so "grep the web" is a hard problem. Grep on your machine just scans through every byte, doesn't care how long it takes, and doesn't care how much computing resources it uses (preferably, as much as it can).
- TheGrassyKnoll 8y agoThese are pretty good tools for 'grepping' on file systems: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
- enriquto 8y agoHow can possibly things be indexed so that exact grep is slow but "intelligent grep" is instantaneous?