Rafał Komorowski <komor@...> writes:
On 26/05/2007, at 22:01, Soryu wrote:
Spoiled by Spotight? What system are you using? One of the new 8 core beasts? Spotlight is slow as mud for me usually on a Core Duo MacBook Pro.
Quicksilver ftw and I have “only” 1.5 GB of RAM on my Powerbook as well. But still Find in Project never seems to lose its speed after the initial run.
I have a private theory, that Spotlight is slow on machines with Developer Tools installed, or any other enormous set of text/PDF files. I have both DevTools and lots of txt/doc/pdf files with my work, and Spotlight really slows down on my Powerbook.
Personal experience:
DevTools + 12G of papers (mostly pdf) on a Powerbook G4 1.5 with 512M: Spotlight is slow, close to painfully. Quicksilver much better (slowish)
DevTools + 18G of papers (mostly pdf) on a MacBook pro 2.33 with 3G (yay!): Spotlight is as fast as Quicksilver. First time you call Spotlight can be a bit slow to list results (3-5 sec), from the second time on it's very fast, like in Jobs' keynotes. I use Spotlight as an app launcher, would you believe it?
Piero