Description Michael Rennie 2008-04-22 14:46:34 EDT

Currently we use the 'usage' preferences to know whether we should create api problems after-the-fact (once we have searched for, and found all problems). We could instead use the preferences to prune the things we will search for.

This will have a notable gain in search performance (especially in the case of more than one preference set to 'ignore'), as well less work will be done when we are considering creating problems.

As a first step we could provide a listing of the problem types we want to ignore to the search engine and when it creates the search criteria use that listing to prune criteria. We must be careful though to not couple the search engine to preferences (preference stores, etc).