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