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Why is this faster then find?

• tyingq 9y ago
  "Concerning fd's speed, the main credit goes to the regex and ignore crates that are also used in ripgrep"
  • sharkdp 9y ago
    Yes. For simple searches, the main reason is that 'fd' walks the directory tree in a multithreaded fashion (thanks to the 'ignore' crate).
    • zestyping 9y ago
      Interesting. Why does multithreading make a big difference? I would have assumed that disk seek latency was the speed-limiting factor; what am I missing?
      • tyingq 9y ago
        I believe the comparative benchmarks are done with the os file caches already primed.
  • tayo42 9y ago
    Should have been more clear heh. There was a benchmark that didn't use regex and seemed to turn off the ignore files feature. Im not familiar with rust or those crates Im assuming that's what those are there for?