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When your code-base reaches a certain size, you cease using the IDE to find code and instead start using specialized tools, such as Lucene indexes so that grepp
by ludston 4y ago
When your code-base reaches a certain size, you cease using the IDE to find code and instead start using specialized tools, such as Lucene indexes so that grepping through code takes seconds rather than minutes. One of the bads of this is that using regex over an index is O(n) in comparison to the O(log(n)) of a normal index lookup.