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Thu, 19 May 2005 08:05

Eclipse User

What is C++ indexing. I found it annoying because each time I save a file
the computer freezes for minutes for the indexing...so I turned it off.
What's the use of indexing...and if it is useful, how can it be tweaked
faster?

ben

Re: what is C++ indexing? [message #145750 is a reply to message #145691]

Thu, 19 May 2005 16:02

Eclipse User

Indexing builds an index of your project - this enables such features as
search, navigation, open types and the class browser. So it's useful if you
want to use those features...

There are a number of ways to speed up the indexing of a project:

i) Make sure your project include paths/symbols are set up properly

ii) If you're using CDT M6 or the latest from head, you can use the CTags
based indexer. This indexer uses Exuberant CTags to index the project -
which is extremely fast and enables most
index based features. However, it does not provide cross reference
infromation (which the DOM Indexer and Original Indexer do) so you will not
be able to search for references.

We are working on trying to improve the overall index time using the new DOM
Indexer - so stay tuned for the CDT M7 build... (mid-June).

"ben" <benhongh@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:d6hvge$kke$1@news.eclipse.org...
> What is C++ indexing. I found it annoying because each time I save a file
> the computer freezes for minutes for the indexing...so I turned it off.
> What's the use of indexing...and if it is useful, how can it be tweaked
> faster?
>
> ben
>
>

Re: what is C++ indexing? [message #145801 is a reply to message #145750]

Fri, 20 May 2005 05:34

Eclipse User

Thank you very much! I can't hold my breath for your new improvements!

Ben

"Bogdan Gheorghe" <gheorghe@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:d6irdp$prn$1@news.eclipse.org...
> Indexing builds an index of your project - this enables such features as
> search, navigation, open types and the class browser. So it's useful if
you
> want to use those features...
>
> There are a number of ways to speed up the indexing of a project:
>
> i) Make sure your project include paths/symbols are set up properly
>
> ii) If you're using CDT M6 or the latest from head, you can use the CTags
> based indexer. This indexer uses Exuberant CTags to index the project -
> which is extremely fast and enables most
> index based features. However, it does not provide cross reference
> infromation (which the DOM Indexer and Original Indexer do) so you will
not
> be able to search for references.
>
> We are working on trying to improve the overall index time using the new
DOM
> Indexer - so stay tuned for the CDT M7 build... (mid-June).
>
> "ben" <benhongh@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:d6hvge$kke$1@news.eclipse.org...
> > What is C++ indexing. I found it annoying because each time I save a
file
> > the computer freezes for minutes for the indexing...so I turned it off.
> > What's the use of indexing...and if it is useful, how can it be tweaked
> > faster?
> >
> > ben
> >
> >
>
>

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