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by cmrdporcupine 3064 days ago
Holy crap, try bringing the Chromium codebase into CLion. UI freezes up constantly while the C++ indexing engine does... stuff. Then eventually hangs untill SIGKILLed. Even after giving the JVM 48 gigs on my 64gig dual Xeon 36 core workstation.

Which is a great argument for Xi's architectural choice to disentangle syntax highlighting and display out into separate processes.