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While ag is fast, I use it because of added features. Specifically the ability to automatically ignore files which are ignored in your project's VCS.

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It is also because it is multithreaded (IIRC). There is another one written in Go that is for sure. GNU grep is faster one file (at least the last time I tested).

You're probably talking about sift

https://sift-tool.org/

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