Index-free full-text search that's fast enough for practical use

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After 30 years of development, I've finally cracked the index-free search performance problem.The usual tradeoff: - Indexed search (Lucene, dtSearch) = fast queries, slow setup, storage overhead - Direct search = no setup, too slow for >10GBMy approach: Multi-threaded direct search with intelligent caching. Result: 50GB searched in ~20s on a mid-range Ryzen 5 (5600, 16GB, SSD).Technical details: - Format-agnostic byte-by-byte text extraction (finds text regardless of file format) - Producer-consumer pattern for directory traversal - PDF/OCR cache (0.2% overhead vs. 2-5% for full indexes) - Recursive archive handling (ZIP in ZIP in email) - Scales linearly with CPU coresBenchmark vs. commerci

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