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June was kind of a slow month, results-wise, but plenty of stuff got worked on…
For my sponsors, most of my time went to dealing with the CPU Over-use issue, where the CPU is running at roughly 300% forever on a Mac. I’ve been having trouble duplicating the issue exactly. However, we were able to create a similar results by opening up a specific file, approximately 1000 lines long, with a few dozen imports (including OpenFL). I say “similar” because it’s not clear that it’s the same issue, in that the CPU runs high for a few minutes and then calms back down if no editing occurs. We agree that it *might* be the issue, so I’m addressing it.
In that vein, we found that the problem is the background annotations; specifically, the “Find Unused Imports” inspection. In profiling that code, I have found several hot-spots and have fixed a few of them, bringing the total run time down about 15%. That’s not enough to deal with the problem, though, and the other hot spots aren’t accessible (they are in IDEA’s code — accessing the file caches). Therefore, I’m looking to change the algorithm so that we don’t have to call into IDEA’s code so much.
As for other things that got done over the month, there have not been many checkins, but things have been happening…
What I did for our sponsors:
1) CPU Over-use bug.
1a) Duplicate the sponsor’s code environment on site.
1b) Also set it up for plugin development, so that I can debug and test changes in situ.
1c) Duplicate and profile the bug.
1d) Optimize critical code path, resulted in 15% run time reduction. (Continuing)
What I did for the Community:
1) Code review of Ilya’s latest semantic annotation rewrite — needs changes.
2) Code review for Mads’ build changes (using gradle) — not yet merged, but approved.
3) Checked in the example project showing hxcpp target debugging with openfl.
4) Worked on using HAXE_STD_LIB environment variable and associated UI and project changes (ongoing).
Contributions from the community:
1) Mads’ changes to use gradle instead of ant to build the plugin are complete, but not yet merged. (Waiting for the CPU Over-use bug to be finished; it has higher priority and changing to gradle may be disrupting to work flows.)
Next month:
– CPU Over-use: Finish optimizing and/or refactor “Find Unused Imports” inspection.
– Finish using HAXE_STD_LIB environment variable and be able to set it inside of IDEA.
– Fix bug where Neko (NME) is trying to be launched when custom or HXML configurations are specified.
– Release 11.3 (Stretch goal)
– More work toward parsing and syncing project files, leading to the automatic managing for compiler conditional definitions. (Stretch goal)