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Re:Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub by amelius on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @04:35AM (#18022764)
When I press "download" on GitHub, it also does a linear scan ...
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Re:Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub by daze42 on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @08:29AM (#18023672)
Of the files, maybe, but not the characters in those files. It's orders of magnitude more difficult.
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