Not what I asked.
Is the table bigger than the view?
There's more going on when you index a view than indexing a table, the query that defines the view has to be run to get the data, then the index has to be created, so if the view's inefficient then the creation of the index will take a long time.
Indexing the table however just requires reading the table and then creating the index
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability