s Aho-Corasick generally maintains reasonably consistent performance regardless of the number of patterns you give it. Because of this, the vectorized searcher in this sub-module cannot be used as a general purpose searcher, since building the searcher may fail even when given a small number of patterns. However, in exchange, when searching for a small number of patterns, searching can be quite a bit faster than Aho-Corasick (sometimes by an order of magnitude). The key take away here is that constructing a searcher from a list of patterns is a fallible operation with no clear rules for when it will fail. While the precise conditions under which building a searcher can fail is specifically an implementation detail, here are some common reasons: * Too many patterns were given. Typically, the limit is on the order of 100 or so, but this limit may fluctuate based on available CPU features. * The available packed algorithms require CPU features that aren't available. For example, currently, this crate only provides packed algorithms for `x86_64` and `aarch64`. Therefore, constructing a packed searcher on any other target will always fail. * Zero patterns were given, or one of the patterns given was empty. Packed searchers require at least one pattern and that all patterns are non-empty. * Something else about the nature of the patterns (typically based on heuristics) suggests that a packed searcher would perform very poorly, so no searcher is built.