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Shared indexes

Last modified: 07 September 2023

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.

PyCharm can build shared indexes for your project's code. Whenever PyCharm 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.

When you launch a project, PyCharm processes local and shared indexes together at the same time. This might increase CPU usage on your computer. If you want to avoid this, enable the Wait for shared indexes option in Settings | Tools | Shared Indexes.