Microsoft's tgrep Hits 3x-17x Speedups Searching Chromium's 504K-LOC Codebase
HankYeomans · x · 2026-09-09
- Developer HankYeomans notes the Chromium source is incredibly huge and nebulous at 504K lines of code.
- Microsoft's tgrep references it with 3x to 17x speedups — impressive on its own for a codebase of that scale.
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