[SoftTalker]

Why is that? Does it build an index so later searches are fast?

[burntsushi]

No. I've written about why: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

That blog is eight years old now, but still pretty accurate.

For more details at the level of the regex engine, see: https://github.com/BurntSushi/rebar

[petepete]

No, I just think every last part of ripgrep has had the shit optimised out of it.

Plus it's written in rust and as we know, it's blazingly fast.