From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 15:11:07 GMT
Subject: Re: grep vs git grep performance?
Message-ID: <CAFQ2z_P9bpw+Pc2DhJTCB8dxj-5JAKLE=nyvToGuiRA8wV66Wg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1509030170.10651.59.camel@perches.com>

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> Comparing a cache warm git grep vs command line grep
> shows significant differences in cpu & wall clock.
>
> Any ideas how to improve this?

Is git-grep multithreaded? IIRC, grep -r uses multiple threads. (Do
you have a 4-core machine?)

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