> Comparing a cache warm git grep vs command line grep > shows significant differences in cpu & wall clock. > > Any ideas how to improve this? > > $ time git grep "\bseq_.*%p\W" | wc -l > 112 > > real 0m4.271s > user 0m15.520s > sys 0m0.395s > > $ time grep -r --include=*.[ch] "\bseq_.*%p\W" * | wc -l > 112 > > real 0m1.164s > user 0m0.847s > sys 0m0.314s Note that this "regular" grep is limited to *.c and *.h files, while the above git grep invocation isn't and has to look at all tracked files. How does git grep "\bseq_.*%p\W" "*.[ch]" fare?
