Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Oof.  The updatedb hack above takes 6 seconds on my i7-6500U CPU @
> 2.50GHz with SSD.
>
> I’m not suggesting to use updatedb, but I think it can be instructive to
> look at how the file database is implemented there.  We don’t have to
> use SQlite if it is much slower and heavier than a custom inverted
> index.

Good call, I'll benchmark against an inverted index.

Some cost may also be induced by the Guix store queries, not sure if we
can optimize these.

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