13:40
2026-07-13
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developer-tools
Our Rust file watcher ate 23.6 GB of RAM, and our ignore rules never had a chance
A developer building a local-first indexer for macOS discovered that the `notify-debouncer-full` crate's `RecommendedCache` (which resolves to `FileIdMap`) walked the entire watch root, ignoring any iā¦