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But how fast is that? Cause Spotlight is running in the background, not blocking you from opening the file. I think the bigger issue is just that users expect

But how fast is that? Cause Spotlight is running in the background, not blocking you from opening the file. I think the bigger issue is just that users expect a .mp4 to open with their default .mp4 player, and in fact some people don't know about "open with" and change the extension as a way to pick the player.

CoolGuySteve 4y ago
Unless it's changed since I was there, Spotlight is more or less a sqlite3 database so it has about the same complexity as navigating a filesystem tree but probably with better cache affinity. But also this concern about loading the header of millions of files is such an edge case that I don't think it matters. A human tapping on a piece of glass to play a few files would notice no difference in performance.