ioeric added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D51987#1231990, @ilya-biryukov wrote:

> > You beat it to me, but I thought we didn't use indexer as it could be 
> > confused with the actual indexing?
>
> Sorry. Not a big deal, can revert back if needed.
>  Mostly like indexer since it's shorter. Also not very confusing, since we 
> call the thing it produces an "index", so calling it an "indexer" seems fine.
>
> What's the index you're referring to? Building data structures for faster 
> search?


Yes. The current symbol builder produces *symbol table*, which can be easily 
confused with an index. We might have a different tool that builds the symbol 
index structure (e.g. serialized dex), which might be a better candidate for 
the name "indexer".


Repository:
  rCTE Clang Tools Extra

https://reviews.llvm.org/D51987



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