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I'm re-considering the indexing mechanism of Scala for NetBeans. The indexing is used to store meta-info of parsed templates/methods etc, for auto-completion and document/source offsets searching. Currently, the parsing phases include lexer, syntax and semantic analysis, not include type inference and type check.

With a basic performance testing on all Scala standard library and liftweb's library, the maxima parsing time seems less than 1s, the average parsing time is around 0.2s, not bad.

So, this may let the indexing feature a lot simple, I can store classes/objects/traits' meta-info only, instead of including their type parameters and their members (fields/methods, scoped importing etc), these additional information can be got via re-parsing the source file or querying the class file.