In my personal tests, it's not at all orders of magnitude faster than GNU grep. In fact, for single file, non-unicode greps (most of my usage) the difference is so small as to be imperceptible when interactively using it.
Even for multi-file scenarios, the difference is nowhere near close the difference between GNU grep and BSD grep. This means that compatibility with GNU grep takes priority for me and it's not worth switching over to ripgrep.
Even for multi-file scenarios, the difference is nowhere near close the difference between GNU grep and BSD grep. This means that compatibility with GNU grep takes priority for me and it's not worth switching over to ripgrep.