Building Rq: A Fast Parallel File Search Tool for Windows in Modern C

Re:Building Rq: A Fast Parallel File Search Tool for Windows... by eevmanu on Friday July 18, 2025 @03:10PM (#44608637)

This tool looks great. Congrats for the making of this tool. I would like to know if there is any internal file that could be used to create a benchmark from it in order to compare how fast it gets results in comparison with Void Everything, which is the most common app if a Windows user would like to improve file search.

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Re:Building Rq: A Fast Parallel File Search Tool for Windows... by seeyebe on Friday July 18, 2025 @03:18PM (#44608724)

Thanks! Great question. Everything is an excellent tool, but it works differently—it uses a pre-built index, while rq scans the file system in real time.

To benchmark, you can use hyperfine like this:

hyperfine 'rq C:\ ".png" --glob' 'es.exe .png' 'fd --type f png'

This compares rq, Everything CLI (es.exe), and fd.

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