Re: [orion-dev] User Experience Call

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kris De Volder <kdvolder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 05/01/2012
03:27:56 PM:
> Here's a different type of example (no white space involved).
> 
> Say I have this line of code:
> 
>   response.end("Hello Kris");
> 
> Now search from navigator for 'Kris'.
> 
> It doesn't find the line above.

This worked for me. I wonder if you typed the line
and then immediately searched for it. That is a big current limitation
in our search - because it is index based and the index may not be up to
date at the moment you search. 

It is also definitely true that it is harder to get
an index-based search to be "perfect" compared to a manual file
system crawl on each search. We have been making steady improvements but
I'm sure there are still problematic cases. On the flip side, our search
is vastly more performant and scalable than a naive file system search.
When I go back to Eclipse desktop now I am struck by how incredibly slow
it is. I just did a search for "Kris" in my Eclipse desktop workspace,
which isn't particularly large, and it took over two minutes. The same
search on my Orion workspace, which is slightly smaller but comparable
in size, took under 300ms. Performance certainly doesn't excuse any failure
to find a match, but it's definitely a consideration for Orion to scale
up beyond small applications and workspaces.

Everyone please continue to report bugs if you have
a search case that doesn't work...

John