• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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      9 hours ago

      It’s far faster. Ripgrep has to search every file exhaustively at query time. Windows Search indexes every file at write time (or a background job) so the search results are near instantaneous … at least, that’s how it used to work. I don’t know what happened to it over the past 5-10 years.

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      13 hours ago

      I would argue it used to be faster since it was indexed.

      Not going to install win 11 to find out if it’s any good again. But in 7 it was.