• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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      38 minutes ago

      Everything could do this but sometimes you don’t want to.

      i.e. you’re trading off the background indexing resource usage for instant search results. On a consumer PC where you’re constantly on it and searching for stuff that’s worth it, on a remote server that you’re logging into to bug fix but is normally just running a headless application it may not be.