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Existing search tools on Windows suck.

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@CharlieMQV Awesome.

@CharlieMQV Awesome.

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Aug 19, 20251 min read

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  • URL: https://x.com/FlorianCaesar/status/1957814434648191038
  • Author: Florian (@FlorianCaesar)
  • Posted: 2025-08-19 14:38:30

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@CharlieMQV

Awesome. How much of the speedup is due to bypassing Win APIs? I still like ripgrep a lot.. :)

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@FlorianCaesar

Me naively switching to reading the file contents with the windows API makes this same search ~34 seconds cold and ~14 seconds cached.

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