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  • Nice! That's good to know. Solid speed up, but not by a huge factor. Especially: note how this is circa 3x faster, but "occupied" about 6x as much CPU time. Just out of interest: how many CPU cores do you have? Commented Dec 11, 2023 at 2:42
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    Sorry for late answer: 8 core 16 threads: Ryzen 5700G. I suspect it is still more I/O bound, but given that I have a very fast NVME drive, I really benefited from fd-find. Huge kudos to the authors. Here is my bash alias for it: alias fd='fd --glob -IH ' Commented Jan 2, 2024 at 11:20
  • Thanks for the answer! Yeah, nice! I think that about maxes out the speed you can get from classically searching directories for files. Commented Jan 2, 2024 at 12:28