@sonny It's the sum of multiple performance optimizations from various team members during the last couple of development cycles.

I'm not the major player there. Jeff has been the performance initiative driver and stress tester, while Khalid, Corey and Peter have each created and reviewed at least as much as I did.

My direct performance contributions have been smooth search performance in version 45 and no-reload list/grid switch in 46.

@sonny @antoniof @gnomelibre
And yet, there's still a lot of room for potential performance improvements in future Nautilus versions. For large directories, these come to my mind:

* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3374
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3067

For searching, these come to my mind:

* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3062
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3403

View never can reload after exiting search in large folders (freeze due to exponential filesystem queries) (#3062) · Issues · GNOME / Files · GitLab

Affected version Nightly flatpak: Yes Other: every previous version Steps...

^GitLab

Shout out to @antoniof for maintaining and simplifying Files, and @nekohayo for doing a lot of glue work across projects. That’s A LOT of seemingly invisible work from you two that has a huge impact on GNOME.

Thank you 💙

@tamas
@sonny

@gnome @antoniof @nekohayo @sonny boosting the heck out of intentionally making visible the less-than-visible work which makes (libre) software better for everyone.

Good going, @antoniof and right on @gnome !