> [...] how else would you multithread this? Use a fast "frontier" thread to determine quotes and split works at the safe boundary. I'm personally okay with t

> [...] how else would you multithread this? Use a fast "frontier" thread to determine quotes and split works at the safe boundary. I'm personally okay with the speculative execution as long as its result is correct and I wouldn't consider it cheating. But it is concerning that the benchmark doesn't list all the caveats (as all proper benchmarks should do, like [1], which is incidentally written by who you are replying to). I can't even determine whether the machine is hitting I/O bound or not from the OP! [1] https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/