Use streams rather than lists of entries to avoid large messages from increasing process memory usage

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Lexical is a next-generation elixir language server

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Use streams rather than lists of entries to avoid large messages from increasing process memory usage #597

Closed scohen closed 4 months ago

scohen commented 4 months ago

Using a stream can possibly help reduce the amount of memory a process takes on when a large message is passed to it. This is especially helpful during a full index, where hundreds of thousands of entries are created.