Thank you for the feedback!

The benchmarks that are mentioned in the README are performed for a "warm cache", i.e. I'm running one of the tools first to fill the caches. Then, I'm performing multiple runs of each tool (using bench for some nice statistics) such that both tools profit from the warmed-up cache.

I also perform other benchmarks where I clear the caches. In this case, 'fd' is usually even faster.

The scripts for both warm and cold cache are here: https://gist.github.com/sharkdp/4bc3e5f5ea9df2f29c02ede50634...

for a narrow set of usecases with cold page caches I have written ffcnt[0]. As the name says I mostly use it to count how many million files have accumulated over time in a large directory tree. It could be extended to do regex matching on filenames a la find though, I just never had the need for it.

[0] https://github.com/the8472/ffcnt

The readme says the benchmarks are designed to run warm, so I would assume each was run once or twice beforehand.