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Company blog · sneller.io/blogsystemsdata

Sneller is the company blog at sneller.io, writing about systems and data. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Benchmarking Ripgrep and Sneller Regex”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
7HN people?
2022–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Sneller's post comparing its regex search against ripgrep on a large JSON dataset, a benchmark-style write-up on search performance.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Sneller

Most-linked posts?

  1. Benchmarking Ripgrep and Sneller Regex
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-18
  2. Iguana: Fast SIMD-Optimized Decompression
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-30
  3. Accelerating Regular Expressions with AVX-512 at 1.5 GB/s/core
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. burntsushi · 2023-05-18
    ripgrep author here. Very interesting! I tried reproducing it, but unfortunately: $ sneller -j -S "SELECT COUNT(Line) FROM 'en.json' WHERE Line ~ 'Sherlock [A-Z]\\w+'" expr.Unescape: unexpected backslash escape of 'w' (0x77) $ sneller -j -S "SELECT COUNT(Line) FROM 'en.json' WHERE Line ~ 'Sherlock [A-Z][a-z]+'" CPU doesn't support AVX-512 And that is the primary reason why ripgrep doesn't bother with AVX-512. Not be…

    Comment linking /blog/accelerating-regex-using-avx-512/

    on “Sneller Regex vs Ripgrep”
  2. pmh91 · 2023-05-30

    Submitted Iguana: Fast SIMD-Optimized Decompression as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. pmh91 · 2023-05-12

    Submitted Columnar Compression Without Columns as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. komuW · 2022-05-24

    Submitted Sneller: Elasticsearch Alternative for Log Analytics as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. EntICOnc · 2023-05-24

    Submitted Benchmarking Ripgrep and Sneller Regex as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. pella · 2023-05-22

    Submitted Accelerating Regular Expressions with AVX-512 at 1.5 GB/s/core as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. l2dy · 2023-05-31

    Submitted Iguana: fast SIMD-optimized decompression as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. dist1ll · 2023-05-18

    Submitted Sneller Regex vs Ripgrep as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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