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[Performance] Improve/address file searching especially for large workspaces

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
devtools, performance

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating PSES's workspace-wide file-search implementation and measuring its frequency on a large workspace. Done means file searching no longer causes significant performance impacts in large workspaces, with evidence from an appropriate performance check.

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Description

Area-Engine Issue-Performance

There are significant performance impacts on projects with a large number of files in a workspace because of the way and frequency PSES searches through all of the files in a workspace

Dominant language
C#
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767
Forks
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Avg merge
3d 16h
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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