kadircet added inline comments.

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Comment at: clang-tools-extra/clangd/index/Index.h:77
+struct RelationsRequest {
+  SymbolID Subject;
+  index::SymbolRole Predicate;
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nridge wrote:
> kadircet wrote:
> > sorry for missing it in previous iteration. but this should also enable 
> > batch queries. let's make this one a `llvm::DenseMap<SymbolID>`.
> > And in the callback we should output both the `SymbolID` of the `Subject` 
> > and `Object`.
> > 
> > We have a network based index(internally) and it uses this batch query 
> > optimization to get rid of network latency.
> What is an example use case for a batch query? In a typical LSP editor, the 
> user can only request a type hierarchy for one class at a time.
yes, that's not really applicable to TypeHierarchy, but we are rather 
introducing another endpoint to an existing API(`SymbolIndex`), which will be 
used by a lot more clients later on.

The first example that comes to my mind is, fetching all overrides of a class' 
virtual methods for example.


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