[amadeus]

If you are on Unix, add this to your vimrc and the directory indexing speed should go through the roof:

https://gist.github.com/ee14d6ecb9196a07da56

[jamesgeck0]

Is that offloading the task of scanning file names to the find command?

[jpk]

Looks like find is piped into head, though. So it would only index the first ten?

[aidenn0]

No, it's the first g:ctrlp_max_files which is defined as 10000

[jpk]

Oh, true. Good call.