The future of code search is not regex – 100x faster than ripgrep

https://fff.dmtrkovalenko.dev/

24•neogoose•3h ago

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neogoose•3h ago

I have open sourced the fastest code search implementation. Comprehensive SDK for both file finder and grep file search that is over 100x faster than ripgrep

MaxMonteil•2h ago

This looks cool!

You should add a link to the GitHub repo for the project itself, at first I wasn't even sure what it was called.

I found this link https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/fff.nvim

siva7•1h ago

I don't get this submission title. Your tool uses regex but the title claims the future is not about regex.

molszanski•23m ago

I think it is about input. Before I had to type regex, now I just type text and fuzzy finds more, regex style. Awkward wording, but code seems cool.

kristopolous•1h ago

I ran across this fascinating tool a few days ago researching embedding models on hugging face.

Advertised as "ColGREP Semantic code search for your terminal and your coding agents",

I haven't put it in any harness yet but I probably should.

https://github.com/lightonai/next-plaid/tree/main/colgrep

I've also tried astgrep (also known as sg) but llms really mess up on them. I think you'd need to fine tune.

If anyone has cracked that case I'd love to hear about it

schrodinger•1h ago

How's it work? Embed tokens and use euclidean distance or something?

globular-toast•52m ago

Why is it "for neovim"? Surely such a thing would be useful in many applications?

ramon156•36m ago

Because it's being dishonest from multiple angles.

- it has regex, so the title is weird - it definitely wouldn't be 100x faster than rg - its an sdk, so its apples to oranges anyway

genewitch•43m ago

considering that ripgrep has marginal overhead over just reading the files to /dev/null, how exactly does this achieve 100x speedup?

I have a lot of use for something that can search ~1GB of text "instantly", but so far nothing beats rg/ag after the data has been moved into RAM.

anilakar•39m ago

The trick to optimization is not "doing faster" but "doing less". I already feel rg is missing a ton of results I want to see because it has a very large ignore list by default.

asdfadsfaf•25m ago

I don't get it how can I search anything but the file name?

dig1•21m ago

ctags, GNU Global and even "ugrep -Q" would like to have a few words with you ;)

swiftcoder•17m ago

Is there a write up of the underlying approach? The summary on the repo mentioned SIMD, but not a whole lot else.

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