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by eastbound 421 days 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!
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const_cast 420 days ago
On 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.
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nyarlathotep_ 421 days ago
IIRC, VSCode packages a rg binary and uses it for search.

Probably explains why it's something that works well and works fast.

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