I took the month off work and traveled around Japan, Chile, and Argentina. During my travels, I managed to do quite a bit of work on The Silver Searcher: https

I took the month off work and traveled around Japan, Chile, and Argentina. During my travels, I managed to do quite a bit of work on The Silver Searcher: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher . It's a clone of ack[1], but written in C instead of Perl. I've done a decent amount of profiling[2] to find slow parts and improve the speed. For literal searches it uses a version of Boyer-Moore-Horspool strstr[3]. For regex searches it uses the new JIT compiler in PCRE[4]. Depending on the search, it can be 3-5x faster than ack. And thanks to some contributors this past month, it's now in homebrew and Gentoo portage. Well, back to the grind tomorrow. 1: http://betterthangrep.com/ http://betterthangrep.com/ 2: Using gprof, valgrind, and Instruments.app. See http://geoff.greer.fm/2012/01/23/making-programs-faster-profiling/ http://geoff.greer.fm/2012/01/23/making-programs-faster-prof... 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string_search_algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string_sear... 4: http://sljit.sourceforge.net/pcre.html http://sljit.sourceforge.net/pcre.html