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Yes. For simple searches, the main reason is that 'fd' walks the directory tree in a multithreaded fashion (thanks to the 'ignore' crate).

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Interesting. Why does multithreading make a big difference? I would have assumed that disk seek latency was the speed-limiting factor; what am I missing?

I believe the comparative benchmarks are done with the os file caches already primed.

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