I have found that when doing Find Usages on a class and checking the option "Usages of methods", that IDEA is being inefficient while searching for class methods which are overloaded.

For example, I have a class which has 8 static methods overloaded on the name "load", and 5 static methods overloaded on the name "create", plus I have 5 different constructors.

In IDEA 6951, what is happening when I do a Find Usages on the class and check "Usages of methods", IDEA is doing a search on each "load", and each "create", and each constructor one at a time, which is making it take much longer – at least 2 minutes longer in this case.

Each search for each variation of "load" and "create" methods is taking a long time,eg. 10-20 seconds; I don't know if this is because the method name is a simple word "load" and "create", or is it because there are alot of usages among the overloaded methods, so IDEA is wasting alot of time looking through the same matches each time.

Thread: 6776 - Find Usages Performance
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If I invoke "Find Usages" on a class X, and check the "Usages of methods", then IDEA should first group the methods which have the same name, and IDEA should run the find method usages for all the overloaded methods with that name using the same algorithm that Find Usages on a single method uses when you check "Include overloaded methods". For methods that aren't overloaded, IDEA would just do whatever it is currently doing.

At least in the code I am working with, it is pretty common to have overloaded methods in a class, and if they are public
static with lots of usages, I find that those are the methods taking the most time to find the usages of. So, that's why I think this optimization is worthwhile.