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Indexed Find in Files

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Talkat Pure Virtual C++ 2022 · on Tuesday, 2022-04-26· [developer-experience]

speaker

name:Christian Gunderman
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/xR8W3Mc51zs
slides:none on file

summary

Indexed Find in Files for Visual Studio 2022 uses a separate indexer process that batches discovered filenames, scrapes file contents, and serves matches so the IDE only brute‑forces a tiny subset of files; typical searches are about 2× faster, 95th‑percentile improves from 21.65s to ~1s and a demo searches 381,000 files in just over a second, with enterprise repos seeing up to 5×–10× cumulative speedups (first search excluded). Enable via Tools → Options → Environment → Preview Features → Enable indexing.

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chapters (7)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:18What is Finding Files
  3. 1:08Improvements
  4. 1:56Demo
  5. 2:54Results
  6. 4:20How Does Index Search Work
  7. 6:04Outro

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