@neogoose_btw: Did a proper comparison of a new Microsoft's tgrep to fff. tldr Microsoft somehow managed to make an indexed grep that …
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A tweet compares Microsoft's new indexed grep tool tgrep to fff, highlighting that tgrep is slower, has slower index building, and larger index size.
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Did a proper comparison of a new Microsoft’s tgrep to fff. tldr Microsoft somehow managed to make an indexed grep that is
- slower than fff
- index build time is way slower
- index size is significantly larger
👏 👏 👏 to absolutely vibe coded codebase and even README https://t.co/Uipd00bkc4
Dmitriy Kovalenko (@neogoose_btw): Why they all are trying to make their own better version of ripgrep and a worse version of fff?
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