Would be cool to be able to pause VAX parsing for some time or until it is enabled again. My laptop is speeding up fans when using much CPU and that interferes with my conversations of Skype due to background noise. Also it seems like parsing does stop during the build, which slows it down. Would be totally cool if pause option also paused IntelliSense parsing :).
Recently we introduced the using of multiple cores in parsing, which is magnificent but laptops tend to sweat when it comes to using multiple threads for longer calculations...
Is this a common problem? VA should pre-parse everything when you first load the project (which should not take a long time) and later, VA just loads the symbol database. Long parsing (and using multiple cores) also happens when you use Find References, but that can be stopped.
I hope it was a one-off problem You can exit VS as a workaround.
Since my project is pretty large (Chromium), it usually takes more than half an hour to parse it or even longer if I start a build. Also closing the IDE is undesired since it takes 3-4 minutes just to load a solution back. Unloading can be skipped using Task Manager .
Here is my scenario. My project is building (takes about an hour) and Visual Assist X is parsing it in parallel (takes about 2 hours together with building). Usually I receive several calls on Skype at this time and I would like to pause both build and VAX to slow down the fans and have a short conversation. I can stop the build, but not VAX :(. I have to kill the IDE and load solution again later.
It is an exotic request indeed. But it shouldn't be too hard to implement a pause button, should it?
Pause parsing for some time
Posted - Dec 02 2011 : 1:29:38 PM
but laptops tend to sweat when it comes to using multiple threads for longer calculations... 
