TurboFind

Fast file indexer and search for Windows. Indexes 1M+ files in ~12s, then fuzzy-searches them in ~15ms.

Built with Rust using rayon for parallel crawling, nucleo for fuzzy matching (same engine as Helix editor), and crossterm for the TUI.

Benchmarks

Tested on 1,093,594 files (RTX 3060 / Ryzen system):

Operation	Time
First index	~12s (65K files/sec)
Cache reload	<1s
Fuzzy search (avg)	~15ms (1.09M files)

Measured over 100 iterations per query using release build. Run Ctrl+B inside the TUI to benchmark on your machine.

Build

git clone https://github.com/fulong97/turbofind.git
cd turbofind
cargo build --release

Binary ends up at target/release/turbofind.exe.

Install

cargo install --path .

This copies turbofind to ~/.cargo/bin/ which is already in your PATH. Run turbofind from anywhere.

Or grab the pre-built .exe from Releases.

Usage

# Index default paths
turbofind

# Index specific directories
turbofind C:\Projects D:\Documents

Search filters

Query	What it does
budget	Fuzzy match all files
ext:rs config	Only .rs files matching "config"
ext:pdf invoice	Only PDFs matching "invoice"
dir:	Only directories

Keys

Key	Action
Up/Down	Navigate results
Enter	Open file
Ctrl+O	Open containing folder
Ctrl+B	Run benchmark
Esc	Quit

How it works

First run crawls the filesystem in parallel using all CPU cores and builds an in-memory index. The index gets serialized to a binary cache file so subsequent launches load in under a second. Search uses the nucleo fuzzy matching algorithm (same engine as Helix editor) with parallel scoring via rayon. Extension filters use a pre-built HashMap for O(1) lookup.

Dependencies

rayon walkdir nucleo crossterm bincode serde dirs

License

MIT