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Show HN: Krep a High-Performance String Search Utility Written in C

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173 points daviducolo | 3 comments | 11 Mar 25 16:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.566s | source
1. stefanos82 ◴[11 Mar 25 17:00 UTC] No.43334582[source]▶
It's weird that the_silver_searcher, also known as `ag` [1] is not mentioned in benchmarks, which is also implemented in C.

I wonder why...

[1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

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2. tom_ ◴[11 Mar 25 17:50 UTC] No.43335153[source]▶
The author seemed to stop working on it around 2020, and nobody seems to have taken it over.
3. nicce ◴[11 Mar 25 18:01 UTC] No.43335298[source]▶
Classic post where ripgrep is faster than ag, so maybe that does not matter: https://burntsushi.net/ripgrep/