[TxMt] Slow Find in Project

Allan Odgaard throw-away-1 at macromates.com
Thu Oct 12 22:25:24 UTC 2006


On 12. Oct 2006, at 17:59, Edward Ocampo-Gooding wrote:

>> More generally, this brings up the question of why the system (not  
>> just TM!) becomes unresponsive, and why the search is so slow (at  
>> least for projects that include whole directory trees).
> Just out of curiosity, is the Project Search just doing a recursive  
> grep?

It is not, no -- since it needs to search open documents as they are  
in memory (not on disk) and it also to some degree handles encoding.





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