> > IMO, as long as the time differences remain small, I'm totally okay with ripgrep being slower by default on smaller corpora if it means being a lot faster by default on bigger corpora.

Also something-something about dependencies (a Rust staple): https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1fvzfnb/gg_a_fast_mor...

Note that this is the author of ripgrep replying to a third party commenter asking whether rg isn’t already lightweight, and comparing the two under various possible definitions of “lightweight”.