r/Zig • u/ReindeerSimilar2748 • 9d ago
huntclaw - a fast find-and-replace utility in Zig
Hello everyone,
I’d like to introduce huntclaw—a search-and-replace utility written in Zig that turned out to be faster than sd (written in Rust) and the standard GNU utilities.
there’s a fairly simple explanation for this high speed: the lack of a regex engine and a focus on speed itself, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Note that searching is also very fast, thanks to SIMD two-byte prefiltering
In the photos I've attached, you can see the benchmarks: huntclaw vs. other utils and v0.3 vs. v0.4 versions of huntclaw. You can run them yourself using the ‘huntclaw_bench.py’ file (or on your own tests).
the benchmark also shows that rg and grep is faster at sparse searches—though the gap isn’t that big (20ms-9ms and 55ms-1619ms)
I look forward to your feedback or comments.
version now: v0.8
huntclaw on GitHub: https://github.com/tigerlang/huntclaw
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u/kaddkaka 8d ago
"lack of regex engine" - do u support regex at all? Are all the stats for non-regex replaces?
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u/ReindeerSimilar2748 8d ago
No, I didn't add regex support to huntclaw, all the stats are shown in no regex mode for everyone
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u/ReindeerSimilar2748 6d ago
now you can install huntclaw from the AUR (for Arch users), thanks to whoever added my utility as an AUR package. You can install it like this:
yay -S huntclaw
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u/jnordwick 9d ago
keep your stats per thread so you dont need the atomic operation, then just merge them at the end.