From: Jon Smirl Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:50:24 GMT Subject: Re: Compression and dictionaries Message-ID: <9e4733910608152250h1bcb8bf5qebb29ef84b971abd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4b73d43f0608152243i15b37036x7aa50aa3afc2b02f@mail.gmail.com> On 8/16/06, John Rigby wrote: > Sorry if this is off topic, but could the dictionary be used to make > git-grep alot faster? It would be almost instant. Inverted full-text indices are what Google uses to grep 20B web pages in 1 sec. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com