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(2024) gg: A fast, more lightweight ripgrep alternative for daily use cases https://reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1fvzfnb/gg_a_fast_more_lightweight_ripgrep_alter

• keybored 7mo ago
  > > IMO, as long as the time differences remain small, I'm totally okay with ripgrep being slower by default on smaller corpora if it means being a lot faster by default on bigger corpora. Also something-something about dependencies (a Rust staple): https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1fvzfnb/gg_a_fast_more_lightweight_ripgrep_alternative/lqbit1d/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1fvzfnb/gg_a_fast_mor...
  • masklinn 7mo ago
    Note that this is the author of ripgrep replying to a third party commenter asking whether rg isn’t already lightweight, and comparing the two under various possible definitions of “lightweight”.
    • keybored 7mo ago
      Yes.