The future of code search is not regex – 100x faster than ripgrep
by neogoose on 4/2/2026, 3:45:22 AM
https://fff.dmtrkovalenko.dev/
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by: pjmlp
It has never been ripgrep for decades for those of us on IDEs.
4/2/2026, 6:58:17 AM
by: kristopolous
I ran across this fascinating tool a few days ago researching embedding models on hugging face.<p>Advertised as "ColGREP Semantic code search for your terminal and your coding agents",<p>I haven't put it in any harness yet but I probably should.<p><a href="https://github.com/lightonai/next-plaid/tree/main/colgrep" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lightonai/next-plaid/tree/main/colgrep</a><p>I've also tried astgrep (also known as sg) but llms really mess up on them. I think you'd need to fine tune.<p>If anyone has cracked that case I'd love to hear about it
4/2/2026, 5:04:14 AM
by: genewitch
considering that ripgrep has marginal overhead over just reading the files to /dev/null, how exactly does this achieve 100x speedup?<p>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.
4/2/2026, 6:14:45 AM
by: swiftcoder
Is there a write up of the underlying approach? The summary on the repo mentioned SIMD, but not a whole lot else.
4/2/2026, 6:40:59 AM
by: neogoose
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
4/2/2026, 3:45:22 AM
by: dig1
ctags, GNU Global and even "ugrep -Q" would like to have a few words with you ;)
4/2/2026, 6:37:08 AM
by: globular-toast
Why is it "for neovim"? Surely such a thing would be useful in many applications?
4/2/2026, 6:05:58 AM
by: asdfadsfaf
I don't get it how can I search anything but the file name?
4/2/2026, 6:33:31 AM
by: schrodinger
How's it work? Embed tokens and use euclidean distance or something?
4/2/2026, 5:24:07 AM