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I noticed that the search speed of similar queries becomes a bit slower when Everything has been running for a long time (multiple days or even weeks).

Is this a bug or to be expected? Maybe applying thousands of file changes to the database harms cache locality or something like that?

When you change the sort order: Everything will 'mark' the current results. Iterate over every item in the new sort index. If an item is 'marked', add it to the new result list. Thank you! That explains it. It seems like that's indeed what we did in our solution, we just marked the items from list ...

Thank you for the detailed reply! Everything doesn't sort at all with fast sorts. Instead, Everything uses the fast sort index when searching for results. Ah, that's clever. But how does the code handle this case. We have: Name sort index: A, B, C Path sort index: B, C, A Size sort index: C, B, A Th...

Hello David, a couple months ago we had a task in our programming class where we needed to find a solution for a specific problem: Given are two lists A and B. A is already sorted and B contains only elements found in list A, but not necessarily all and they're not sorted. Also all elements are uniq...