From 8ed71062e913549cdae1b2855d668f6f19b933cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert van Engelen Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:05:51 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] updated README --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1bad3e08..96552c7e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -492,6 +492,13 @@ significant runtime overhead and should not be used for the final build. Performance comparisons ----------------------- +Please note that the **ugrep** and **ug** commands search binary files by +default and do not ignore .gitignore specified files, which will not make +recursive search performance comparisons meaningful unless options `-I` and +`--ignore-files` are used. To make these options the default for **ug**, +simply add `ignore-binary` and `ignore-files` to your .ugrep configuration +file. + For an up-to-date performance comparison of the latest ugrep, please see the [ugrep performance benchmarks](https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep-benchmarks). Ugrep is faster than GNU grep, Silver Searcher, ack, sift. Ugrep's speed beats