From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:33:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Compression and dictionaries
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608160832320.28360@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910608152250h1bcb8bf5qebb29ef84b971abd@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:

> On 8/16/06, John Rigby <jcrigby@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry if this is off topic, but could the dictionary be used to make
> > git-grep alot faster?
> 
> It would be almost instant.

But only if you are not using a regular expression, but a single word.

Ciao,
Dscho