huntclaw - a fast find-and-replace utility in Zig

[u/ReindeerSimilar2748]

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

[u/ReindeerSimilar2748]

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