[Blog] 5x speedup changing break to elemIndex!

Very cool! This is a nice general optimization.

In your specific case, I think there is a much easier solution though. git grep has already parsed the exact match you’re looking for and you only need to re-parse every line because your git grep returns the entire line. If you tell it to return only the exact matches (with git grep -o and a pattern that includes the contents of the references like with -E: (@|#)\(ref:[^)]*\), then you will get one result per match (instead of one per line) and only need to trimm off the first and last character