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kaiwenwang
8 months ago
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Inside the "3 billion people" national public data...
Using sift on a 100GB txt file still takes multiple minutes. I haven't tried ag, but grep is supposedly slower.
kelnos
8 months ago
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If the desire is just to grep for your name, email address, whatever, and then throw the rest of the data away, I don't think waiting multiple minutes is a big deal.
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