Yes. For simple searches, the main reason is that 'fd' walks the directory tree in a multithreaded fashion (thanks to the 'ignore' crate).

Interesting. Why does multithreading make a big difference? I would have assumed that disk seek latency was the speed-limiting factor; what am I missing?

I believe the comparative benchmarks are done with the os file caches already primed.

Should have been more clear heh. There was a benchmark that didn't use regex and seemed to turn off the ignore files feature. Im not familiar with rust or those crates Im assuming that's what those are there for?