[Lazarus] "Find in files" suggestion

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:36:23 +0200
Václav Valíček <vaclav at valicek.name> wrote:

> >> Same overkill as you describe above, if you realise that most projects
> >> are dependent on LCL (And it on LCLBase, next LazUtils, next FCL...) and
> >> it is huge bunch of files....
> > Once searched, the OS has the files in cache and search takes
> > only a few seconds on recent machines.
> While I was doing experiments with resourcestrings, I had clean git 
> checkout of repo (without binaries) and script that greped 
> resourcestrings (or any other word) in source tree... On quadcore server 
> with 4GB of RAM, WD Black (server) HDD and only running ssh and nginx 
> (load was ~0.15) the search took about 25-30 seconds... On my laptop, it 
> was two minutes...

What have you searched?

Using "Find in files" to search for a plain string case insensitive in
the whole Lazarus sources (no fpc sources) *.pas;*.pp;*.inc;*.lfm under
Linux takes about 3 secs here.
Of course the first time is much longer, when the OS has to load the
files from disk.

Mattias