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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr, nicolas.palix@imag.fr, mmarek@suse.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, markivx@codeaurora.org,
	stephen.boyd@linaro.org, zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	broonie@kernel.org, ming.lei@canonical.com, tiwai@suse.de,
	johannes@sipsolutions.net, chunkeey@googlemail.com,
	hauke@hauke-m.de, jwboyer@fedoraproject.org,
	dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, jslaby@suse.com,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] scripts: add glimpse.sh for indexing the kernel
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:38:05 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1606181237220.2079@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1606181230460.2079@localhost6.localdomain6>

On Sat, 18 Jun 2016, Julia Lawall wrote:

> Overall, idutils seems to be a good choice.  As compared to a grep based 
> solution, it knows what is code, so it doesn't report on files where the 
> words of interest only occur in comments.  As compared to glimpse, it 
> knows that foo_bar is a single word.  Indexing is faster than with 
> glimpse, and looking things up in the index is also slightly faster, even 
> though Coccinelle needs to make multiple calls because it doesn't support 
> complex formulas.  It does support regexps, which could perhaps be even 
> faster, but since the running time currently is mostly under 1 second and 
> often under .1 seconds, it probably doesn't matter.

I'm not suggesting that idutils should be the default.  Only that someone 
who wants to go to the trouble of indexing could find that idutils is a 
good choice.

julia

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-18 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-16 22:31 [PATCH v2 0/8] coccicheck: modernize Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] coccicheck: move spatch binary check up Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] coccicheck: add indexing enhancement options Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-17  9:47   ` Julia Lawall
2016-06-17 15:12     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-17 15:29       ` Julia Lawall
2016-06-16 22:31 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] scripts: add glimpse.sh for indexing the kernel Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-17  9:44   ` Julia Lawall
2016-06-17 15:10     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-17 15:35       ` Julia Lawall
2016-06-18  1:22         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-18  5:51           ` Julia Lawall
2016-06-20 19:18             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-18 10:37           ` Julia Lawall
2016-06-18 10:38             ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2016-06-17 15:18     ` [Cocci] " SF Markus Elfring
2016-06-17 16:11       ` Julia Lawall
2016-06-16 22:31 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] coccicheck: replace --very-quiet with --quit when debugging Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:31 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] coccicheck: add support for requring a coccinelle version Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:31 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] coccicheck: refer to coccicheck bottest wiki for documentation Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:31 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] scripts/coccinelle: require coccinelle >= 1.0.4 on device_node_continue.cocci Luis R. Rodriguez

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