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		cma on Dec 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows file access performance compared to Linux Its a project with several million lines of code. If grep is hitting 100% utilization and isn't just file system bound, and you are dealing with ascii stuff, you can speed it up a lot of times by prepending 'LANG=C', so that it doesn't have to deal with unicode.

Groxx on Dec 29, 2018 [–]

I'll throw in my vote to try something like ack / ag that have better defaults for code-grepping.

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