[shantanugoel]

Aside to the discussion, can you point out a link to the changes you did? I'd like to get silver searcher faster as well on windows.

[to3m]

Sure. Here's a binary: https://github.com/tom-seddon/the_silver_searcher/tree/_vs20...

The source code is there too, but I wouldn't look too closely. "Cobbled together", like I said. Though I've been using it all the time, in conjunction with ag-mode - https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el - and haven't noticed any obvious problems.