> I use locate probably 80% of the time, find maybe 20% of the time or less Absolutely true. find is way too slow. I was hacking on some AOSP code recently and

> I use locate probably 80% of the time, find maybe 20% of the time or less Absolutely true. find is way too slow. I was hacking on some AOSP code recently and finding a file took upwards of 1 minute. locate on the other indexes the files on your hard disk, so is generally much quicker.