Re: [Cocci] [PATCH 4/4] coccicheck: add indexing enhancement options

[Julia Lawall]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Wolfram Sang wrote:

> 
> > It's not as efficient as glimpse because the query language is simpler.  
> 
> Interesting, what is missing compared to glimpse?

Glimpse allows queries that are arbitrary formulas, up to a limited level 
of complexity, involving both && and ||.  For idutils, Coccinelle runs lid 
on each of the tokens in the formula, and then does unions and 
intersections on the result.

julia

> > So more filtering has to be done at the ocaml level.  But it's probably 
> > fine in most cases.
> 
> For me, it has two advantages over glimpse:
> 
> a) it is in the debian package repository
> b) the same database can be used with the code browser 'seascope'
>    which can do nice things by feeding ctags on the fly with data
>    from id-utils.
> 
> Mileages vary, of course, just wanted to mention it to give pointers.
> 
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