Re: [cdt-dev] Order in which files are indexed (was: AbstractIndexerTask

[Nathan Ridge <zeratul976@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The urgent task mechanism is used to improve user experience when user
> starts a massive index rebuild and then opens a file that would be indexed
> only at the end of the rebuild. The editor asks PDOMManager to expedite
> indexing of the file opened in the editor.

Does the indexer give priority to files that are already open at the time
the indexer starts?

Bug 415486 [1] suggests it doesn't, and that's also been my experience,
but I find it surprising that we would give priority to files opened while
indexing but not to files that are already open.

Regards,
Nate

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=415486