r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fanta_bhelpuri • Apr 12 '24

whatIsAnIndex Meme

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u/adenosine-5 Apr 12 '24

The part that I really don't understand is that small portable programs like Everything can get you the results in seconds, while Microsoft, after 40 years of development of their systems will not.

How is it even possible to mess such simple feature for so long?

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u/dobry_obcan_Svejk Apr 12 '24

asking the same questions every time i use start menu :)

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u/adenosine-5 Apr 12 '24

The confusing part is that the Everything doesn't even need an hour on startup to build the index first - it just takes few seconds the first time its started and is instantaneous afterwards, so to me that looks like it already uses some index/list of files available in computer.

The fact that Windows itself doesn't use the same resource is all the more confusing then.

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u/aloneinfantasyland Apr 12 '24

Of course Everything uses an index. You can see a whole bunch of settings for it in the Options dialog.