Hi, Searching multiple fixed words, grep uses Commentz-Walter algorithm, but it is very slow for a worst case e.g. as following. It is O(m*n). - input: yes `printf %040d` | head -10000000 - word1: x0000000000000000000 - word2: x This change uses Aho-Corasick algorithm instead of Commentz-Walter algorithm to search multiple fixed words. It uses a function to build tries which has been already defined for Commentz-Walter algorithm in kwset.c and which has been already high quality. I see 7x speed-up even for a typical case on Fedora 21 with a 3.2GHz i5 by this change. First without this change (best-of-5 trials): find /usr/share/doc/ -type f | LC_ALL=C time -p xargs.sh src/grep -Ff /usr/share/dict/linux.words >/dev/null real 11.37 user 11.03 sys 0.24 Next with this change (best-of-5 trials): find /usr/share/doc/ -type f | LC_ALL=C time -p xargs.sh src/grep -Ff /usr/share/dict/linux.words >/dev/null real 1.49 user 1.31 sys 0.15 I also wrote two additional patches. Second, If search multiple fixed words, grep immediately returns without longest match if not needed. Without this change, grep tries longest match for multiple words even if not needed. Third, use memchr2 for two patterns of a character. Thanks, Norihiro