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What’s infuriating is, `find` and `grep` are snappy, they find everything you need in microseconds per gigabyte, and they have no index! If the macOS or Window
by eastbound 1y ago
What’s infuriating is, `find` and `grep` are snappy, they find everything you need in microseconds per gigabyte, and they have no index!
If the macOS or Windows searches were just wrappers for find/grep, it would already be an improvement!
- nyarlathotep_ 1y agoIIRC, VSCode packages a rg binary and uses it for search. Probably explains why it's something that works well and works fast.
- const_cast 1y agoOn KDE systems, we have baloo which forms a filesystem index for universal (spotlight-like) search. It's very, very fast and the ranking algorithm for krunner is quite good. I think commercial software should have no issue matching this.