How does this compare with ugrep? I know that does many of these things while st... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		wdkrnls 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Of... How does this compare with ugrep? I know that does many of these things while sticking with C++.

pdpi 10 months ago [–]

Ugrep seems to be a completely new codebase, whereas RGA is a layer on top of ripgrep. Based on the benchmarks on the ripgrep github repo, rg is a bit better than 7x faster than ugrep.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact