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Comment by kaiwenwang

9 months ago

Using sift on a 100GB txt file still takes multiple minutes. I haven't tried ag, but grep is supposedly slower.

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kelnos  9 months ago

If the desire is just to grep for your name, email address, whatever, and then throw the rest of the data away, I don't think waiting multiple minutes is a big deal.

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