alt Hacker NewsOh, if peak RAM usage is higher, in which scenario do you find that's a significant gain? Maybe I misunderstood, what I got from the blog post is that there will be indexing on save (vs on each keystroke with RA). That would be often enough that lower RAM enough in between would not be of much gain. Is that only an incremental indexing with normally low RAM usage? So you would essentially fully index only once per project, + whenever you upgrade dependencies or upgrade rustc?
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> So you would essentially fully index only once per project, + whenever you upgrade dependencies or upgrade rustc?
This is when you do full reindexing.
> Is that only an incremental indexing with normally low RAM usage?
Yup, on save you only update the crates that were invalidated.
It looks like it only partially reindexes on save, but it completely reindexes the single file that’s saved, rather than doing partial reindex of the file on every keystroke like rust-analyser.
But importantly it’s not reindexing the entire project, which is the expensive operation. So you have higher peak RAM when opening a brand new project, but much lower RAM usage while working on the project.