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Xcode's documentation search is painfully slow

Originator:steve.madsen
Number:rdar://11605658 Date Originated:2012-06-06
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Developer Tools Product Version:4.3.2
Classification:Performance Reproducible:Always
 
Summary:
Searching for anything in the Xcode documentation is painfully slow.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Search for something in the documentation, e.g., NSString.

Expected Results:
Results in less than a second.

Actual Results:
Results don't show up for 5 seconds or more.

Regression:

Notes:
While I recognize the documentation is relatively large, there are plenty of full-text search engines that can return results very quickly on far larger datasets. For example: Sphinx Search (http://sphinxsearch.com/).

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