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Comment by rattray

If anyone's looking for an open-source search tool for grepping across repos (or even one large repo) at insane speed, I highly recommend livegrep:

https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep

Demo at https://livegrep.com/search/linux

We used it at Stripe and it was quite popular; often, searching even a single repo was faster on livegrep than with ripgrep locally.

A post reviewing it: https://www.alexdebrie.com/posts/faster-code-search-livegrep...

A post by its creator, nelhage, on its impact: https://blog.nelhage.com/post/reflections-on-performance/ and another on its architecture: https://blog.nelhage.com/2015/02/regular-expression-search-w...

parent rattray 3 years ago

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