iopipe v0.0.4 - RingBuffers!

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On Saturday, 12 May 2018 at 12:14:28 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 5/11/18 5:42 PM, Joakim wrote:
>> On Friday, 11 May 2018 at 16:07:26 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
>> wrote:
>>>[...]
>> 
>> What stops you from downloading a linux release from here?
>> 
>> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases
>
> So I did that, it's not much faster, a few milliseconds. Still 
> about half as fast as GNU grep.
>
> But I am not expecting any miracles here. GNU grep does pretty 
> much everything it can to achieve performance -- including 
> eschewing the standard library buffering system as I am doing. 
> I can probably match the performance at some point, but I doubt 
> it's worth worrying about. It's still really really fast 
> without trying to do anything crazy.
>

I could offer a few tricks to fix that w/o getting too dirty. GNU 
grep is fast, but std.regex is faster then that in raw speed on a 
significant class of quite common patterns. But I loaded file at 
once.

> I hope at some point, however, to work with Dmitry to add 
> iopipe-based regex engine so we can see how much better we can 
> make regex.

As such initiative goes it’s either now or never. Please get in 
touch directly over Slack or smth, let’s make it roll. I wanted 
to do grep-like utility since 2012. Now at long last we have all 
the building blocks.

>
> -Steve