Performance, Debugging, and Multiline Search/Tune the number of worker threads

Control ripgrep parallelism explicitly.

Section: Performance patterns

Tune the number of worker threads

bash
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rg -j 4 'TODO' .
Explanation

ripgrep auto-detects threads well, but manual tuning can help in constrained environments.

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