Sherlock and my Sad Source Search Story
Sherlock and my Sad Source Search Story
- Subject: Sherlock and my Sad Source Search Story
- From: Chilton Webb <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:21:30 -0500
This morning I went a-lookin for a file, and couldn't find it. I called
a fellow programmer who I knew was staying with relatives here in town,
and he happened to have it. The file is inconsequential, the problem is
the search. I used Sherlock under OSX.
After getting back to my house about an hour later, I sat down to
reorganize some of my source files, an lo, there was the missing file,
already on my hard drive. So I searched again using Sherlock, and again
no results.
Puzzled, I opened the 'old' version of Sherlock 2, under Classic. It
first warned me that this version was not optimized to run under OSX.
OK, so it'll run slower. So I searched. FOUR copies of the source code
file popped up, almost instantly. So I did a quick little benchmark of
another file which was *sitting on my desktop*.
Sherlock/OSX
18.80 seconds
>> no matches <<
Sherlock/Classic
15.26 seconds
7 matches including the one on the desktop
So I thought I'd mention this to other developers who are having
problems finding files on your drive. I assume the optimization of
Sherlock included support for UFS drives, so the old sherlock isn't your
best bet for those types of drives. But if you're searching for source
code on an extended format drives, Classic may be your friend.
-Chilton