For simple string search (i.e., not regular expressions) ripgrep is quite fast. I just generated a simple 20 GB file with 10 random words per line (from /usr/share/dict/words). `rg --count-matches funny` takes about 6 seconds on my M2 Pro. Compressing it using `zstd -0` and then searching with `zstdcat lines_with_words.txt.zstd | rg --count-matches funny` takes about 25 seconds. Both timings start with the file not cached in memory.
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For simple string search (i.e., not regular expressions) ripgrep is quite fast. I just generated a simple 20 GB file with 10 random words per line (from /usr/share/dict/words). `rg --count-matches funny` takes about 6 seconds on my M2 Pro. Compressing it using `zstd -0` and then searching with `zstdcat lines_with_words.txt.zstd | rg --count-matches funny` takes about 25 seconds. Both timings start with the file not cached in memory.
Tried that it’s taking exactly as much time as my program.