Skip characters in search-compile or precompile static text?

[kevinmcl]

All,

Search for small substrings in larger strings is enabled, and customers and in-house reviewers love it.
But now, compiling the "search entry cache" is very slow.

Building and publishing takes hours, when it formerly took 20 minutes for a given project.

Substring search needs to stay, so I can't just switch off.

I eliminated some paragraph-long and sentence-long strings-with-no-spaces, and that yielded a speed increase, but a build is still longer than two hours.
Is there a place I can tell Flare to treat an underscore and a colon as a word separator like it does a space?

Also very helpful would be the ability to pre-compile search for specific topics that tend to remain static, release-over-release. This would leave a smaller set of topics to scan fresh each time the search database is built. Is that an option?