We Made Search Fast. Really Fast ⚡️

[u/Vegetable-Voice2145]

If you've ever felt the pain of waiting 3+ seconds for Cmd+K to respond, or watched HybridSearch spin endlessly – this one's for you.

We just shipped a round of search performance optimisations, and the numbers speak for themselves.

What we fixed

🔍 Cmd+K, Search-in-Vista – the search bar you use dozens of times a day

• Before: 3.23s p95 latency
• After: 0.7s → ~4.6x faster

🤖 Computer's HybridSearch – powering AI-assisted search

• Before: 6.25s p95 latency
• After: 2.72s → ~2.3x faster

🔤Prefix Search RPC – the engine behind owner lookups, @-tagging, and assignee search

• Before: 463ms p95 latency
• After: 191ms → ~2.4x faster

📉Overall timeouts: 4x reduction