Subject: Re: bug#62837: [PATCH] Add a semantic-symref backend which uses xref-matches-in-files

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 09:50:36 +0300

> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 01:38:18 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> 
> On 14/04/2023 18:37, Spencer Baugh wrote:
> > When project-files is available, this is a much more efficient
> > fallback than the current grep fallback.  Ultimately, this is
> > motivated by making xref-find-references faster by default even in the
> > absence of an index.
> 
> It's a clever enough idea, but unfortunately it doesn't look like the 
> performance is always improved by this change.

Maybe we could offer that as optional behavior, turned on by some user
option?  Then people who do experience performance boost could use it.