The Silver Searcher is a tool for searching code. It started off as a clone of Ack, but their feature sets have since diverged slightly. In typical usage, Ag is 5-10x faster than Ack. See the GitHub page for more info.

Release tarballs are signed with my public key (3F0A04B6). To verify a release, first download my public key and import it:

gpg --import ggreer_gpg_key.asc

After downloading the tarball and signature, run:

gpg --verify the_silver_searcher-2.2.0.tar.gz.asc \
             the_silver_searcher-2.2.0.tar.gz

Are we fast yet?

See graphs of performance across releases.

Releases

Related posts

• Ag & Ripgrep: .ignore

• Optimizing Ag: Special-casing File Extensions

• Help Me Get to Ag 1.0

• The Silver Searcher: Adding Pthreads

• Profiling Ag. Writing My Own Scandir

• The Silver Searcher: Benchmarking Revisions

• Profiling with Gprof

• Making Ag Faster: Profiling with Valgrind

• Building for Others

• The Silver Searcher: Better than Ack