ugrep-benchmarks

This seems like an unhelpful comment? First of all, the ugrep performance comparisons are online (and haven't been updated to compare against this version that was only released 3 days ago). So your question is answerable: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep-benchmarks The two are very close and both are head and shoulders faster than most other options. And backwards compatibility is a mixed thing, not a mandatory goal. It's admirable that ugrep is trying to be a better drop-in replacement. It's also cool that ripgrep is trying to rethink the interface for improving usability. (I like ripgrep in part because it has different defaults than grep that work very well for my use cases, which is primarily searching through codebases. The lack of backwards compatibility goes both ways. Will we see a posix ripgrep? Probably not. Is ripgrep a super

I think you should try it before you read these conflicting benchmarks from the authors: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep-benchmarks

From the ugrep README: For an up-to-date performance comparison of the latest ugrep, please see the ugrep performance benchmarks [at https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep-benchmarks]. Ugrep is faster than GNU grep, Silver Searcher, ack, sift. Ugrep's speed beats ripgrep in most benchmarks.