[cdt-dev] Improve Indexer on large project

[Toan Pham <tpham3783@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am working with a large project and find that the
eclipse's indexer takes a long time (10 secs or more) to look for auto
completion tags.
I do not know what happen to it; probably the
algorithm for the indexer is inefficient.  I am not sure if anyone has
thought of the following methods
to improve performance on intelli-sense feature:

1. 
Use Ctag database - Having the ability to load a ctag database (similar
to a feature in Ajunta) and index based on the ctag database only.  I
can imagine this is a nice must-have feature because it speeds up
eclipse and also making eclipse more valuable.

2.  Path Filter indexer - Having the ability to filter out
directory paths that the indexer should not be indexing would also
speed things up.

I like eclipse and hope that developers are
improving the indexer in any way.  These are my thoughts and hope that
they'll consider them.


Thanks,

Toan