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by em-bee 132 days ago
grep with equivalent performance? i highly doubt that. my mailbox has 2.6M emails: running grep through millions of files if you use maildir or a similar format takes forever. likewise running grep on a 7.6GB large mbox file takes more than a minute.

on the other hand in supmua (which inspired notmuch) the same search takes seconds.