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Shared indexes

Last modified: 11 February 2024

One of the possible ways of reducing the indexing time is by using shared indexes. Unlike the regular indexes that are built locally, shared indexes are generated once and are later reused on another computer whenever they are needed.

IntelliJ IDEA can connect to a dedicated resource to download shared indexes for your JDK and build shared indexes for your project's code. Whenever IntelliJ IDEA needs to reindex your application, it will use the available shared indexes and will build local indexes for the rest of the project. Normally, this is faster than building local indexes for the entire application from scratch.