On: The Silver Searcher: An attempt to make something better than ack

[js2]

FWIW, git grep also uses threads in some circumstances to get better performance.

Also, obligatory link whenever Boyer-Moore is mentioned: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.h...

[AngryParsley → js2]

That's a cool blog post. I've tried not to look at the grep source code until I've written my own solutions, so I didn't know grep made that tradeoff.