About time. Like many, I've often wondered why Google can search a billion webpages in a blink of an eye, but it takes an eternity to search for a simple document on your own computer.
You have to create an index of all the documents in order to search quickly, much like Google does of the web. Windows doesn't do this by default-- it would certainly slow things down while it's going on. Unix systems do indexing for precisely this purpose-- but they update the index (a time and CPU intensive process) at around 3 to 4 am, expecting the computer to be left on all the time and that those times will be free.
In a word-- indexing.
ReplyDeleteYou have to create an index of all the documents in order to search quickly, much like Google does of the web. Windows doesn't do this by default-- it would certainly slow things down while it's going on. Unix systems do indexing for precisely this purpose-- but they update the index (a time and CPU intensive process) at around 3 to 4 am, expecting the computer to be left on all the time and that those times will be free.