# How Zed Improved Project Search Performance in Release 214.4

DevFeed: [How Zed Improved Project Search Performance in Release 214.4](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/nerd-sniped-project-search-13517.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://zed.dev/blog/nerd-sniped-project-search>)

Author: Piotr Osiewicz

Published: 2025-11-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Zed Industries - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/zed-industries-blog.md>)

Topics: [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [vs-code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vs-code.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [files](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/files.md>), [parallelism](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/parallelism.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [project](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/project.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [vs-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vs-code.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains why Zed's project search was slow and describes the performance improvements released in Zed 214.4. It covers filesystem scanning, in-memory buffers, settings and .gitignore handling, and parallel execution.

## Source excerpt

Why was it slow, and why is it still slow?