On 6/29/2010 4:29 AM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote:
Project scanning ! Tor mentioned this can be disabled. But really...
why it is scanning the very same Maven libraries each time I'm
starting up ? NB takes a kickass start and stamps right away onto the
breaks as soon as it is scanning the tenths of Maven libraries my
projects have. I thought Maven libraries are by their nature
immutable. They're cast in stone once they get a final version. So why
am I seeing each morning the same lengthy procession of scans ?
Usually when I'm - trying - to show off Netbeans to my colleagues. :-)
First off, I have to say that the scan on demand feature did *not* work
for me in 6.9. I read the Wiki page on it and nothing seemed to work as
advertised.
Secondly, I've griped about project scanning since about NetBeans 4.0
and it's still a problem. It should be faster and start less often.
That said, those behaviors could be ignored as long as it didn't consume
*too* much CPU and disk while running in the background and, above all,
didn't stop you from doing things. By this I mean that if you're doing
Go-To-Type and NetBeans has once scanned the type you're looking for it
should have no issue doing so again during scanning -- period. Even if
it is rescanning the source tree containing that type, the old data
should be available the entire time except for an atomic switch between
the old and new scan data for the given source file. As it is now there
are large periods of time where Go-To-Type (and many other
functionalities) are not usable. Also there's the matter that
Go-To-Type is still a lot slower than I'd expect for exact searches. I
wrote a static analyzer using NetBeans' classfile module to index to a
relational database, and slapped a web app on top of this. It finds
types all but instantaneously. NetBeans thinks for quite some time in
many cases.
--
Jess Holle
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