Re: [PATCH] grep: do not do external grep on skip-worktree entries

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

I have to wonder, though...did anybody ever actually profile our
internal grep to find out _why_ it was so much slower than GNU grep?

I vaguely recall that somebody fairly competent mentioned that modern grep
implementations are based on DFA engines, but I offhand don't remember if
the discussion had concrete numbers.

Could we simply ship a better grep engine and obsolete external grep?

Yes, that is a very constructive longer term solution.