Re: [cdt-dev] The defaults of "Index unused headers" and "Index source a

[Nathan Ridge <zeratul976@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  > It's strange. I thought that "Index source and header files opened in 
>  > editor" should be faster then "Index unused headers" cause the amount of 
>  > unused headers may be significantly more than amount of opened files. 
>  
> My understanding (from observing the behaviour, I don't know the code) is 
> that "Index unused headers" will index all the unused headers once, when 
> the project is created. This takes a long times, yes. But "Index source 
> and header files opened in editor" reindexes a file every time it's opened 
> in the editor, so it's a constant performance drain. 
>  
> This is incorrect. Each file is indexed only once in both cases. 

What I experience when I have "Index source and header files opened in editor"
checked, is that every time I open a file, a "C/C++ Indexer" task appears in
the Progress view. This does not happen when I have the option turned off.

What is this task doing?

Regards,
Nate