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Drill\n\nVery fast file searcher without indexing\n\n[Download latest release](https://github.com/yatima1460/Drill/releases/latest)\n\n\n\n[![CD](https://github.com/yatima1460/Drill/actions/workflows/cd.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/yatima1460/Drill/actions/workflows/cd.yml)\n[![Financial Contributors on Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/Drill/all/badge.svg?label=financial+contributors)](https://opencollective.com/Drill) [![GitHub issues](https://img.shields.io/github/issues/yatima1460/Drill.svg)](https://github.com/yatima1460/Drill/issues)\n[![GitHub forks](https://img.shields.io/github/forks/yatima1460/Drill.svg)](https://github.com/yatima1460/Drill/network)\n[![GitHub stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/yatima1460/Drill.svg)](https://github.com/yatima1460/Drill/stargazers)\n[![GitHub 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requirements-run.txt\npython3 src/main.py\n```\n\n\n## What happened to the old code?\n\nThe old D code and other experimental versions are available in the other branches\nThis `main` branch started as an orphan branch to make a clean cut with the old Drill\n\n## What is this in detail\n\nI was stressed on Linux because I couldn't find the files I needed, file searchers based on system indexing (updatedb) are prone to breaking and hard to configure for the average user, so did an all nighter and started this.\n\nDrill is a modern file searcher for Linux that tries to fix the old problem of slow searching and indexing.\nNowadays even some SSDs are used for storage and every PC has nearly a minimum of 8GB of RAM and quad-core;\nknowing this it's time to design a future-proof file searcher that doesn't care about weak systems and uses the full multithreaded power in a clever way to find your files in the fastest possible way.\n\n* Heuristics:\nThe first change was the algorithm, a lot of file searchers use depth-first algorithms, this is a very stupid choice and everyone that implemented it is a moron, why? \nYou see, normal humans don't create nested folders too much and you will probably get lost inside \"black hole folders\" or artificial archives (created by software); a breadth-first algorithm that scans your hard disks by depth has a higher chance to find the files you need.\nSecond change is excluding some obvious folders while crawling like `Windows` and `node_modules`, the average user doesn't care about .dlls and all the system files, and generally even devs too don't care, and if you need to find a system file you already know what you are doing and you should not use a UI tool.\n\n* Clever multithreading: The second change is clever multithreading, I've never seen a file searcher that starts a thread *per disk* and it's 2019. 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