I&#x27;m not sure how valid the comparison benchmark is:<p><pre><code>  Ack and Ag found the same results, but Ag was 34x faster
  (3.2 seconds vs 110 seconds). My ~&#x2F;code directory is about
  8GB. Thanks to git&#x2F;hg&#x2F;svn-ignore, Ag only searched 700MB of that.
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Searching less data definitely is going to take less time!