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by kllrnohj 529 days ago
You kinda said it yourself already - ctags is fast because it's producing almost nothing of value. Being fast at doing nothing isn't impressive.

Try doing the same with C++ and more indexing options enabled, such as with something like universal-ctags, and a larger code base, say Android's repository aught to do it. Are you still getting 400MB/s? Nope.