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Re: semantic.cache


From: Joe Bloggs
Subject: Re: semantic.cache
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:21:38 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

Thorsten Bonow <thorsten.bonow@post.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

>>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Bloggs <joebloggs@nowhere.invalid> writes:
>
>     Joe> Can anyone tell me what the semantic.cache file is for in .emacs.d?
>     Joe> Thanks.
>
> Hi,
>
> you must have activated "semantic", part of "cedet":
>
> "Semantic is an infrastructure for parser based text analysis in Emacs. It is 
> a
> lexer, parser-generator, and parser. It is written in Emacs Lisp and is
> customized to the way Emacs thinks about language files, and is optimized to 
> use
> Emacs' parsing capabilities."
>
>        http://cedet.sourceforge.net/semantic.shtml
>
> From the documentation:
>
> Semantic database provides caching of the parse trees by saving them
> into files named `semantic.cache' automatically then loading them when
> appropriate instead of re-parsing.  The reason for this is to save the
> time it takes to parse a file which could take several seconds or more
> for large files.
>
> Toto
>
>
>
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