If it's a concern that it's using CPU power, you could find where it's invoked and precede it with the command 'nice', which lowers its precedence, e.g., something like:
nice find . -name "blah"
I concur with others that the find command, arcane though it is, is a vital and superbly powerful tool! I use it regularly, often like this:
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for i in $(find . -name "*.mxl" )
do
#do some work with file $i
done
