> It can't avoid breaking the output into lines It can whenever you don't ask for line numbers, can't it? > It probably looks for newlines after a match is fo

> It can't avoid breaking the output into lines It can whenever you don't ask for line numbers, can't it? > It probably looks for newlines after a match is found Probably, yeah. Counting number of newlines in a range, without caring just where they fall, can probably be pretty darned fast with vector instructions. Idk if that's worth the additional pass, though.