Right, by "very hard to beat" I didn't mean to imply it was somehow impossible.
Looking at the whole benchmark that that page links to, the difference is within a few percent for the actual searching, but it is also the only software in the author's own benchmark that is even close. The other software that was mentioned in the comment above is some 5x worse.
Nobody is going to change the standard grep for performance reasons.
Looking at the whole benchmark that that page links to, the difference is within a few percent for the actual searching, but it is also the only software in the author's own benchmark that is even close. The other software that was mentioned in the comment above is some 5x worse.
Nobody is going to change the standard grep for performance reasons.