FFS (Fast File Search)

Building Solution C/C++

Install brotli using vcpkg

vcpkg install brotli:x64-windows brotli:x86-windows

Informations

• C++20
• main.cpp is the test file
• file structure
  • cache
  • index
  • tree
  • lienar
  • dfs

Building Python Extension

if you don't have VSCode

python setup.py build

else

Press CTRL+MAJ+B to run the build command.

How it works

Linear Search

Linear search consists of reading folders recursively until there are no more files. The parallel mode makes it possible to carry out research in several thread simulator. The child folders of the input folder (root) are distributed in threads according to the number of cores available on the processor.

DFS (Depth First Search)

Uses the Depth First Search algorithm to search through the file. the parallel version does the same thing as for the linear search.

Tree

Created a folder and file tree. the tree is then compressed with brotli and saved in a cache file. The cache file can then be read to be able to search quickly.

Indexer

Indexing it creates a hash table that keeps all files and folders. the hash table is then compressed and saved in a cache file. the cache file can then be read to perform quick searches.

Average speed for the same search

Methods	Average Speed
DFS	2s 500ms
Linear	2s 450ms
DFS (Parallel)	2s 100ms
Linear (Parallel)	2s 50ms
Tree (cache)	200 ms
Index (cache)	15 ms