Telescope too slow for large directories?

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  • telescope-file-browser.nvim

    File Browser extension for telescope.nvim

    One of the things I have noticed while poking around inside Telescope's file browser extensions (the extension that should be handling telescope file browsing) is that is struggles quite a bit with large amounts of files. This has been called out on my issue board for my project

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    A fast finder system for neovim. (by camspiers)

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  • fzf-lua

    Improved fzf.vim written in lua

  • telescope.nvim

    Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.

    Telescope's performance is a bit more nuanced. TJ verbally confirmed (please take with grain of salt :D) that he will finish fps-mode for 0.1 (which I think lands beginning of July) which already will be another great performance boost. Furthermore, unless you actually need fuzzy matching (people don't realize they actually need "AND" in query terms..), then you can leave matching to rg or fd alone, similar to how telescope.builtin.live_grep works. Generally speaking, in the future, we also want to leverage rust to increase overall performance without compromising integration, refactor previewers, entry makers, enable ubiquitous multi selections, etc. However, that takes time :)

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