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RE: [cdt-dev] Fast vs. Full Indexing ?
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It's not obvious where the 3.1 fast indexer fails or not, at least not for
the average user that you are trying to address. At the very least you
should use CDT 3.1.2 where a number of fixes have been done. And CDT 4 is
even better.
At any rate, you'll never find me recommending the full indexer. Others may
have other opinions.
Doug Schaefer, QNX Software Systems
Eclipse CDT Project Lead, http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Rich Wagner
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 11:26 AM
> To: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cdt-dev] Fast vs. Full Indexing ?
>
> We're extending Eclipse/CDT, and one of the issues we're facing is the
> need for robust support for C/C++ searching. I'm hoping some of you might
> be able to provide advice about CDT's indexing options. We're using the
> 3.1.0 version of CDT in Eclipse 3.2.0.
>
> We're considering changes which would (a) switch the current "Preferences"
> default indexer from "none" to either "fast" or "full", and (b) include a
> one-time-only pass over users' existing projects, to convert their
> indexers from "none" to "fast" or "full".
>
>
> But: Which indexer? From what I've seen in CDT's Bugzilla reports and
> other web searches, it seems "fast" has the disadvantage of preventing
> some C/C++ searches from succeeding, whereas "full" indexing can be
> prohibitively time-consuming for large projects.
>
> We could prompt the user, to make the choice of fast vs. full...
>
>
> But from a usability perspective, we're concerned that the choice will
> leave average users mystified. Is it possible to summarize which cases
> fail when fast indexing is chosen? Is it possible to summarize the
> difference in overhead? Any recommendations for a default?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you might provide,
>
> Rich Wagner
> Senior Software Development Engineer
> Tilera Corporation
>
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