Genivia/ugrep v4.0.0

ugrep v4.0

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Ugrep 4.0 offers faster searching with improved internals:

• faster async output, speeds up ugrep 3x when outputting many matching lines 🚀
• removed "rest line" buffering, speeds up ugrep up to 2x, depending on the output-related options used 🚀
• removed redundant "binary file" checking, speeds up ugrep 10%~20% 🚀
• double size input buffer, speeds up searching 5%~20% when searching very large files (GB) with none/infrequent pattern matches 🚀
• faster empty pattern matching, i.e. pattern '' matches all lines faster, as much as 10x faster 🚀
• removed redundant color escape codes from the output 🖥
• option -Q with an optional argument is now -Q=DELAY instead of -QDELAY, so -Q2 is -Q -2 (simple options should be composable/separable) which searches 2 directory levels deep with the query TUI 🖥
• fully tested --index (still beta version) to search indexed file systems, see also WIP project ugrep-indexer 🚀

Thumbs up to all ugrep users and contributors to make this possible 👍

A comprehensive performance benchmarking comparison will be published. I hope this convinces you all how fast ugrep is compared to other grep tools. At least until/unless other grep start using (rip-off, ahem...) my work ❤️