[Graziano_M]

Besides z being much faster (looking through a sorted list of directories visited instead of recursively walking from the current directory) your snippet looks from the cwd

[enricozb]

This is a fair point. I usually only "jump" from directories that have at most 500k files, and the median is way closer to ~500 files.

Even in the worst cases, at least with my i7 NUC and using fd instead of find, it's less than 500ms to load the entire list into fzf.

[Graziano_M]

Yep, that's fair. I use fzf along with z. I use z usually to switch projects (and I work in Go, so many are in GOPATH and annoying to CD to manually) but I use fzf both inside and outside of vim to open individual files.