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

Wolfram Sang
2016-06-11T05:58:56Z

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> It's not as efficient as glimpse because the query language is simpler.

Interesting, what is missing compared to glimpse?

> 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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