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Grep bytes surprised me. Why is it the exact same as write to memory? Is reading from memory much faster than writing or something? Even then I'm not sure how i

Grep bytes surprised me. Why is it the exact same as write to memory? Is reading from memory much faster than writing or something? Even then I'm not sure how it wasn't CPU bound to compare a 4 char string 2 billion times...

mehrdada 6y ago
Grepping "blah" over a sequence of zeros is definitely going to be faster than regular grepping.
- adverbly 6y ago
  Ohhh it's a sequence of zeroes.. oops I missed that part. Makes more sense now.