I'm not sure what this has to do with piping (why would nautilus pipe the output of find when doing a directory listing?), but I doubt it's the pipe that's caus

I'm not sure what this has to do with piping (why would nautilus pipe the output of find when doing a directory listing?), but I doubt it's the pipe that's causing performance issues. Uncached file system access has a tendency to be slow[0]. 0 - https://gist.github.com/nahurst/3711264 https://gist.github.com/nahurst/3711264