microsoft / microsoft/vscode-cpptools
Lazy loading for the intellisense? [Feature request]
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Description
Alternatively if you could add an option to limit how many suggestions can be loaded at most (if this doesnt exist already, if so please enlighten me).The purpose of course being making the intellisense just slightly snappier :)
LLVM's clangd extension limits to about a 100 entries (or so), when comparing the 2 extensions with quickSuggestionsDelay set to 0, the amount of time it takes for clangd to load the entries is quite a noticeably lot faster (and I believe it might just be because it doesnt load houndreds of entries, hehe) and at the end of the day theres really no point loading that many suggestions anyway.
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Start by comparing the C/C++ extension's IntelliSense behavior with the LLVM clangd extension, using quickSuggestionsDelay set to 0 as the reported comparison. Determine whether the work should add lazy loading, a maximum suggestion count, or both; done means suggestions load faster while remaining useful.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
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- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100